Philip Gibbs Quotes

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• It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
• At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
• In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly…
• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little…
• There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.
• But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France…
• During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news…
• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat…
• It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was…
• We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing…
• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
• When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead…
• In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and…
• From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as…
• All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard…
• It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.
• A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next…
• It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

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