Top World War I Quotes

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...

Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ;Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;Tortures unholy by...

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, even...

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful t...

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age,...

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slogging with rifle and pack through its ruined streets to this well-documented destiny ‘up the line’,...

On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition—not to determine who was right, but who wa...

Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars—for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however pain...