G.B. Shaw's 'Arms and the Man'

George Bernard Shaw's 'Arms and the Man' has been one to the most memorable plays that I have ever read. I present here a few of the quotes from the same: 

"Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen."
"A narrow shave; but a miss is as good as a mile. Dear young lady, your servant until death. I wish for your sake I had joined the Bulgarian army instead of the Servian. I am not a native Servian."
"I've no ammunition. What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead; and I finished the last cake of that yesterday."

"...And I hadn't even a revolver cartridge--nothing but chocolate. We'd no bayonets--nothing. Of course, they just cut us to bits. And there was Don Quixote flourishing like a drum major, thinking he'd done the cleverest thing ever known, whereas he ought to be courtmartialled for it. Of all the fools ever let loose on a field of battle, that man must be the very maddest. He and his regiment simply committed suicide--only the pistol missed fire, that's all."

I am sure you all must have enjoyed reading those quotes. We don't always read a book or a piece of writing just for the sake of literary criticism but more often it is for the sake of enjoying simply the language and expression. I have read this play for a large number of times not because I have to write an essay on it but because I simply love Shaw's language and the dialogues of his play.