Prewar Quotes
- Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be… — Harry Bruno
- In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
- Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than… — Kate Atkinson
- In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the… — Paul Hoffman
- The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized… — W Averell Harriman