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The Red Badge of Courage QUOTES

The Red Badge of Courage QUOTES

1 " A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

2 " A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

3 " The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

4 " It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

5 " Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

6 " He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

7 " His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

8 " It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

9 " He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

10 " Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

11 " But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

12 " So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

13 " And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

14 " The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

15 " He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks— an existence of soft and eternal peace. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

16 " His feet where retarded. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

17 " Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

18 " They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

19 " This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

20 " But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage