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War Quotes by Robert Graves
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;…
- 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…
- To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
- War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had…
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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare