Beilby Porteus Quotes

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is a profane thing.

War is the business of barbarians.

War is the province of danger.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

War is death’s holy-day.

War is never cheap or easy.

a wanton and bloody stalemate.

War is no damn football game.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

War is the science of destruction.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

War is about dead people.