First World War Quotes

41 quotes by 37 authors

• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities… — Erich Fromm
• I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of… — Antonio Tabucchi
• When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the… — Trevor Nunn
• What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start… — George Grosz
• My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World… — Elliott Carter
• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker
• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child,… — Tom Hiddleston
• My father was in the First World War. — Doris Lessing
• The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
• Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think… — Vladimir Putin
• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
• ...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North… — David Nicholls
• The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers
• The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than… — Laurie R. King
• Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a… — George W. S. Trow
• My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood
• Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky
• The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between… — Jill Lepore
• I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson
• If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War -… — Christian Lacroix

Who Wrote These First World War Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 41 First World War Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 First World War Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 First World War Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 2 First World War Quotes by Adam Hochschild
• 1 First World War Quote by Whittaker Chambers
• 1 First World War Quote by Vladimir Putin
• 1 First World War Quote by Trevor Nunn
• 1 First World War Quote by Tom Hiddleston
• 1 First World War Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 First World War Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• 1 First World War Quote by Robyn Davidson
• 1 First World War Quote by Rene Cassin
• 1 First World War Quote by Pat Barker
• 1 First World War Quote by Margot Livesey
• 1 First World War Quote by Margaret Thatcher
• 1 First World War Quote by Laurie R. King
• 1 First World War Quote by Kevin Myers
• 1 First World War Quote by John Boyd Orr
• 1 First World War Quote by Jill Lepore
• 1 First World War Quote by J. Maarten Troost
• 1 First World War Quote by George W. S. Trow
• 1 First World War Quote by George Grosz
• 1 First World War Quote by Fritz Sauckel
• 1 First World War Quote by Ernst Haeckel
• 1 First World War Quote by Erich Fromm
• 1 First World War Quote by Emily Greene Balch