Philip Gibbs Quotes

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

War is the province of danger.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.