119 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.