- Better
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Philip Gibbs Quotes
Most Famous Philip Gibbs Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best philip-gibbs quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Philip Gibbs Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dead
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Battle
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
- Deep
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Peace
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Columns
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opinion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020