Philip Gibbs

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

— Philip Gibbs

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

— Philip Gibbs

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but…

— Philip Gibbs

If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that…

— Philip Gibbs

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign…

— Philip Gibbs

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

— Philip Gibbs

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we…

— Philip Gibbs

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because…

— Philip Gibbs

“about the German boy's throat and tried to strangle him and to stop another dreadful cry. The second officer made haste. He…

— Philip Gibbs

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town…

— Philip Gibbs

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of…

— Philip Gibbs

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

— Philip Gibbs

“We do trust you—with some misgivings," thought the people, "and we do leave it to you—though you seem to be making a…

— Philip Gibbs

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so…

— Philip Gibbs

“It is a the belief of many brooding minds that almost as great as the direct guilt of the German war lords…

— Philip Gibbs

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for…

— Philip Gibbs

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes…

— Philip Gibbs

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as…

— Philip Gibbs

“If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if…

— Philip Gibbs

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted…

— Philip Gibbs

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to…

— Philip Gibbs

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

— Philip Gibbs