Oh What A Lovely War

Oh What a Lovely War may refer to one of a number of fictional works:

  • Oh, What a Lovely War! - a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop
  • Oh! What a Lovely War - a cinematic adaptation from 1969 of the stage musical, directed by Richard Attenborough

Famous quotes containing the words lovely war, lovely and/or war:

    “Oh what a lovely war!”
    —Joan Littlewood (b. 1914)

    “Whither went the lovely hoyden?
    Disappeared in blessed wife;
    Servant to a wooden cradle,
    Living in a baby’s life.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)