Best World War I Qoutes
258 World War I quotes by 222 unique authors
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell…
— Jodi Picoult
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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
— Otto von Bismarck
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Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of…
— Richard Powers
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I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
— Vanna Bonta
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But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or…
— Jim Bunning
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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 American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges…
— Rick Atkinson
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When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won…
— Noam Chomsky
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
— Eric Kandel
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning…
— Eric Kandel
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There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been…
— Dennis Prager
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By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was…
— Tom Wolfe
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Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
— Ivica Dacic
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After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
— Charles Duhigg
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What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died…
— Christopher Shays
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I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
— Frank Scott
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My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in…
— Arlen Specter
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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
— Richard Holbrooke
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My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours. Death never gives…
— Wilfred Owen
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Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth…
— Wilfred Owen
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The world is being like playstation games, and the bastards get the Joystick
— Black Son Beats
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio…
— Abbey Lincoln
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During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after…
— Georg Solti
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