First World War Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,
— Pat Barker
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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
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My father was in the First World War.
— Doris Lessing
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
— Whittaker Chambers
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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
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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
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My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
— Clint Eastwood
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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
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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
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I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
— Robyn Davidson
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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
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