Great War Quotes

102 quotes by 77 authors

If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach… — Gerard de Ridefort
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of… — Bertrand Russell
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded… — Robert Graves
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as… — Wilhelm II
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. — H.G. Wells
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the… — Bertrand Russell
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon. — Henry Ford
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the… — Robert Graves
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or… — Paul von Hindenburg
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor… — Bertolt Brecht
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,… — Ernest Hemingway
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
This is a war to end all wars. — Woodrow Wilson
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great,… — Harold Nicolson
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In… — Louis Simpson
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that… — Eric Hiscock
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… — T.E. Lawrence

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