War Quote by David Mitchell

“War is a nation’s way of eating.”

— Will Durant

“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked”

— Rex Stout

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Well, we are making war for civilization, are we not? Very well, we are. Therefore, we eat in a civilized way.”

— Emily Post

“I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.”

— John Steinbeck

“Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to…

— Xenophon

“Why fight the enemy when you could food them?”

— Veronica Rossi

“A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.”

— DeeDee Stovel

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut