If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“There was a time, in fact, I think the time of the first World War, when it could not have been said… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I asked, Did she know Adolf Hitler invented the blow-up sex doll? And Ms. Wright’s black sunglasses turned to look at me.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world… — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
