Homer Quotes

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

Then comes the catastrophe. Then the great mobilization will take place in Europe; 16-18 million men, the flower of the various nations, armed with the best tools of death, will enter the field as enemies. But, I am convinced, that behind the great mobilization there stands the great havoc. It will not come through our party, but rather yours. You are driving things to the limit. You are leading us to catastrophe. You will reap what you have sown

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

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

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

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

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

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

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

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is hell.

Surviving is the only glory in war.