Quotes about Sneak Attack

Antoine Henri Jomini

This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.

Hideki Tojo

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

Toby Keith

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

J. K. Rowling

The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path. 'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,' Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff's—' SPLAT. Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck.

Holly Black

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

William Gilbert

On my face extended flat
I was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door.

Joseph Heller

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

Flannery O'Connor

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Isoroku Yamamoto

There is no pride in attacking a sleeping enemy.

Yamamoto planned and commanded the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. However, he thought that the Japanese Declaration of War would be delivered in Washington before the attack as was required then by the international rules of war. The Japanese Government however did not deliver the war declaration until after the attack. Yamamoto was not only distressed about the non delivery but was concerned that the “sneak attack” was going to motivate the Americans to an all out war, when the Japanese strategy had been to negotiate a rapid peace giving them more freedom of action in the Pacific. Yamamoto was right. “Remember Pearl Harbor” became the rallying cry, and America would accept no peace other than Japanese Unconditional Surrender.

Larry Niven

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

Stephenie Meyer

however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Dr. Dre

I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Sneak Attack Quotes