"Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise."
- Siegfried Sassoon
"...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and..."
- Elena Mauli Shapiro
"Who desired the Great War? No nation benefitted from it. The war brought about the destruction of the Prussian Empire, stripped the British Empire of its ability to hold its colonies, slaughtered the ..."
- Matthew De Abaitua
"Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually"
- Fay Weldon
"So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)"
- Robert Walser
"Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breachin..."
- M.A. Lossl
"Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one."
- A.J.P. Taylor