Books Quote by Patrick White

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its…

— Ami McKay

“ one night, before you sleep, have you ever thought about how horrible reality is how intensely you've fought? and within this war with…

— taruni b

“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of…

— Robert Browning

“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

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

“...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully…

— Bruce Bairnsfather

“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose…

— Alice James

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to…

— Sasa Stanisic

“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting…

— Peter Behrens

“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield Suspended in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.”

— Chris Hedges