“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.” — Jessie Douglas Kerruish Copy Share Image
“I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.” — Artur von Bolfras Copy Share Image
“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.” — Ellen N. La Motte Copy Share Image
“Who said I was dead. Send me the mortars and a thousand hand grenades.” — George W. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war… — Paul Nash Copy Share Image
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance… — John W. Weeks Copy Share Image
“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all… — Bruce Bairnsfather Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me… — William Arthur Sirmon Copy Share Image
“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“During the conflict that was placed before them, they not only gained the gratitude of many in their own generation but they… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“For a time, the word Weltpolitik seemed to capture the mood of the German middle classes and the national-minded quality press. The… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“(On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“He saw the delicate blades of grass which the bodies of his comrades had fertilized; he saw the little shoots on the… — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
“They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
![“Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.” quote by John W. Weeks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/851/john-w-weeks-249771_air-power_pershing-won-wwi-without-even-looking-in_2713249.png)
![“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.” quote by Jacqueline Winspear](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c9c/jacqueline-winspear-9117_freedom_in-this-great-war-wwi-they-had-all-of-th_2638293.png)
![“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the end of World War I, but it was then that one particularly toxic seed was planted. Ever since, Arab society has tended to define itself less by what it aspires to become…” quote by Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/78c/scott-anderson-16892_arab-society_certainly-blame-for-all-this-turmoil-in_1597624.jpg)
