bloody quotes

If I were a Mexican, I would tell you,'Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and hospitable graves.'

-Thomas Corwin
  Speech to the Senate against the  American^Mexican War,11 Feb.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed.

-W(illiam) E(rnest) Henley
  'Invictus', collected in In Hospital (1903).

Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

- Flavius Josephus
c.75^79  AD  Of the Romans.  A History of the Jewish War, bk.3, ch.5, section1 (translated by William Whiston).

A most horrid malicious bloody flame† It made me weep to see it.

- Samuel Pepys
  Observing the Great Fire of London. Diary entry, 2 Sep.

   You've beaten them once. Now go out and bloody beat them again.

- SirAlf(red) Ramsey
  Addressing his players when theWorld Cup final went into extra time.

But the past is just the same,and War's a bloody game.

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'Aftermath'.

But ruffian stern, and soldier good, The noble and the slave, From various cause the same wild road, On the same bloody morning, trode, To that dark innthe Grave!

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lord of the Isles, canto 6, stanza 26.

Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Eliza to Freddy. Pygmalion, act 3.