74 Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you?'

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.