98 Quotes About Wwi

Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.

If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.

And as I went up to him and took his hands, I felt that I had made no mistakes; and although I knew that, in a sense which could never be true of him, I was linked with the past that I had yielded up, inextricably and for ever, I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

Retreat, hell we just got here!

I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.

Who said I was dead. Send me the mortars and a thousand hand grenades.

With Russian blockades contributing to a growing European economic depression, America’s wheat production in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dakotas were booming in response to worldwide demand, and harvesters were desperately needed.

..my feelings for the countryside…the beauty and the wildness, the enchantment of so much colour and life and warmth of the sun. Most people are restless in the country, they feel a vacancy, and want to get back to the shops and pavements and traffic; what they call life. Sometimes this war seems to have come directly out of that restlessness.

Torpedo! Starboard side!” The lookout grasped the cold metal handrail tightly, his knuckles white, staring helplessly as a 20-foot torpedo, travelling at 60 feet per second, disappeared from his view to ram 400 pounds of high-explosive TNT-Hexanite into the majestic ocean passenger liner.