Quotes about Ww1

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It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all s — James Connolly
Our knowledge of life is limited to death — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going dow — Laurence Binyon
Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Goodbye Piccadilly
If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human — Theresa Breslin, Remembrance
You can't win because of the guns," said Adam with a sigh. "Machine guns, mortars, field guns, howitzers: it doesn't mat — Simon Tolkien, No Man's Land
I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! — Arthur Newberry 1893- Choyce, Memory Poems of War and Love
I had him in my cab once.Who? Neville askedRupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a foreign field/ Tha — Pat Barker, Toby's Room
I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed — John Biggins, A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire
Hitler initially served in the List Regiment engaged in a violent four-day battle near Ypres, in Belgian Flanders, with — Russel H.S. Stolfi
No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not th — Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel
She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. Wha — Jamie L. Harding
Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of 1918 on the side of a blood-spattered trench. Arou — Helen Zenna Smith, Not So Quiet...
The last time I saw Collin was in 1917, at the foot of Mort-Homme.Before the great slaughter, Collin’d been an avid angl — Jacques Tardi, Goddamn This War!
The leave zipped right by. We were so terrifically glad to be back to our own little section of the trench, with all its — Jacques Tardi, Goddamn This War!
And the Great Adventure - the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they'd devoured as boys - consisted of c — Pat Barker, The Regeneration Trilogy
Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world - a horrific, fantastic socie — Cat Winters, In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Shut your mouth - there's a bus coming. — Linda De Quincey, Tommy's Tunnel: My grandad's story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge
As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had no — Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky