World War I

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

    “So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly
    Were dead and damned, there sounded ‘War is done!’
    One morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,
    ‘Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,
    And in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?’”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
    Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
    —Baudouin I (b. 1930)