Huxley: Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?Bryce: No.Huxley: Seabags Brown does.Bryce: I don't see what that has to do...Huxley: What do you know about Gaelic history?Bryce: Not much.Huxley: Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too.Bryce: I don't...Huxley: What do you know about astronomy?Bryce: A little.Huxley: Discuss it with Wellman, he held a fellowship. Bryce: This is most puzzling.Huxley: What about Homer, ever read Homer?Bryce: Of course I've read Homer.Huxley: In the original Greek?Bryce: NoHuxley: Then chat with Pfc. Hodgkiss. Loves to read the ancient Greek.Bryce: Would you kindly get to the point?Huxley: The point is this, Bryce. What makes you think you are so goddam superior? Who gave you the bright idea that you had a corner on the world's knowledge? There are privates in this battalion who can piss more brains down a slit trench then you'll ever have. You're the most pretentious, egotistical individual I've ever encountered. Your superiority complex reeks. I've seen the way you treat men, like a big strutting peacock. Why, you've had them do everything but wipe your ass.
~ Leon Uris
