22 Quotes by Fritz Kreisler

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

I, too, soon got accustomed to the deadly missiles, - in fact, I had already started to make observations of their peculiarities.

The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind’s eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.