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Philip Gibbs Quotes

Philip Gibbs Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Philip Gibbs
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
British
Birth year:

  • 1
    A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 2
    But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 3
    But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 4
    During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 5
    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. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 6
    I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 7
    In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 8
    It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 9
    It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 10
    The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 11
    The spirit of the fighting men, and the driving power behind the armies, depended upon the support of the whole people and their continuing loyalties. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 12
    This war will be the last war. It is a war of justice against injustice. When they have finished this time the people will have no more of it. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 13
    We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs
  • 14
    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. Philip-GibbsPhilip Gibbs