Great War Quotes

Great War Quote of the day

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)