Allure Quote by Elizabeth Samet

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

— Martin McGuinness

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

— John S. Mosby

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life.…

— Richard Flanagan

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the…

— John S. Mosby

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now…

— Madeline Taylor

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

— John Eldredge

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and…

— Samuel Ha-Nagid

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics,…

— Chris Hedges

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary…

— George Bernard Shaw