Aftermath of World War I

Famous quotes containing the words war i, aftermath of, aftermath, world and/or war:

    War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the mediaeval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    Now, were I once at home, and in good satire,
    I’d try conclusions with those Janizaries,
    And show them what an intellectual war is.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)