Style Bayonet

Famous quotes containing the words style and/or bayonet:

“We think it is the richest prose style we know of.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.”
—Lazare Carnot (1753–1823)