Catch-22 Quotes

Major: You wouldn’t be normal if you weren’t afraid. Even the bravest of men experience fear.

McWatt: Oh man, you really don’t know how this works. Yossarian: I saw the charts, Tenth is less than two days out. McWatt: You really…

Yossarian: Yeah, we went through the whole thing. Clevinger was… he was just… good, basically.

Cathcart: We don’t just hand out promotions, willy-nilly!

Clevinger: You talk like a madman. Marcello: But I live like a sane one.

Cathcart: If I had a nickel for every small thought of yours, I’d be the richest… what in God’s green earth is that?

Cathcart: Sergeant Major, step forward. Sergeant Major, congratulations, I’m hereby promoting you to a Major. Congratulations, get in….

Milo: When was the last time you had a strudel? de Coverley: Not recently…

Yossarian: In his eyes… there’s no life flashing before them or any of that. There’s just terror.

Yossarian: That’s some catch, that catch-22.