First world war Quote by Pat Barker Download Open image “Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,” — Pat Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare First world war Firsts War War of the worlds World World war World war i
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The Seven Years War of 1756–63 has often been considered the first ‘world war’. It certainly shares its European origins with the First and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“But I shot the dog myself. I took him into the barn holding on to his collar. He knew something bad was going to happen, and he rolled over on to his back and showed me his puppy-pink tummy and widdled a bit, quite certain these devices for deflecting aggression would work. I tickled him behind his ear and said,… — Pat Barker Copy Share
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen — Pat Barker Copy Share
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First World War. And just like with the swallow’s eggs, he didn’t want to fight anyone. It just happened. This time it was all on account of the horse. See, he didn’t go off to the war… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before the First World War) and the King Edward variety of potato which has fed the British working class for almost as long). The potato, unlike the royal family, reproduces asexually. Every King Edward potato is identical to every… — Steve Jones Copy Share
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling of the tales that were to form the narrative of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, he began the writing of a collection of stories that he called The Book of Lost Tales. That was his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
