Some somewhat frivolous snippets:
"No no no. That just will not do AT ALL. He is not to go off gallivanting after the enemy fleet like that. If all the enemy carrier divisions and battleships are out there, he could hardly do much about them, now, could he? His role is to act as part of my artillery park, supporting our troops on land, as they battle with the enemy and sharing what air-cover we have with them. Someone call him back."
- General B. Montgomery telling his superior, General Wavell to not permit Admiral Phillips to sail in the as yet unwritten timeline Monty in Malaya…
"<expletive in Japanese>"
- Imperial Japanese soldier discovering that Australian troops trained to play rough in rubber plantations are at least as good at the whole warfare-on-the-Malaya-Peninsula thing as the Imperial Japanese; similar sentiments will be expressed by Imperial Japanese forces upon encounter of other Commonwealth troops, at least if they have the time to get any last words out (Monty in Malaya timeline)
"So what do you suppose that the Führer will ask of us next?" (in German, as Rommel celebrates with some of his senior officers in a bar at the end of his North African campaign in 1942, in the 1958 film Ice Cold in Alex, (Monty in Malaya timeline))