"Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all……" — Wilfred Owen
"Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly."
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen has 56 quotes on this site.
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than…
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my…
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is…
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the…
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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