98 Quotes About Wwi

Harris looked up at the sky and then stared at Stuart. “The sun will set soon. Follow Lieutenant Morley to the aid station.”“I’m all right, Sergeant. I want to stay with my brother.”Harris looked Stuart up and down. “You’re covered in blood.”Stuart looked Harris up and down. “So are you, Ser- geant.”Harris looked at his own uniform and pursed his lips. “Good point; well made. All right, stay if you want.

My second play, Yellow Fever, which came out at the Repertory Theatre a few months later was produced by Lewis Casson, the husband of Sybil Thorndyke, who was at that time the producer of the old Repertory Theatre in Glasgow. He is an extraordinarily interesting man, quite apart from the theatre. I believe he invented the first poison gas projector to be used on the Somme.

In his mind he was a spirit, feeling the radiant heat of the chalk of the trenches; cooling himself in the flicker-rippling Ancre. O, to be able to see it all again, a ghost world of gun-flashes at night. O to see it all, to grasp all of it, without violence, without pain; to share the marching and the singing of the living that were part of the great dream of life and death.

I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Sarajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. I like to fly, not to kill.

They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.

This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.