Quotes by Fritz Kreisler - Page 1

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Energy
Heart
Virtue
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
War
Switzerland
Wife
Cure
Outbreak
Taking
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Dozen
Genius
Half
Overused
World
Fairly
Geniuses
Word
Near
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Enthusiasm
Glowing
Hours
Suddenly
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I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Men
Affected
Saws
Suffering
Afterwards
Horribly
Platoon
Recall
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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
War
Army
Confused
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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Army
Confused
Officer
Recall
Uneven
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Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Exhaustion
Fatigue
Sheer
Complaint
Dropped
Slowly
Manifested
More And More
Murmur
Signs
Strongly
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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Eye
Firing
Hypnotic
Lines
Mind
Noticing
Observing
Psychological
Strange
Prevents
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What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Impressed
Liberty
Order
Police
Relaxation
Spite
Strict
Vienna
Everywhere
Greatly
Mob
Regulations
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Roaring
Sound
Welcome
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Artillery
Extraordinary
Roaring
Welcome
Crashing
Effect
Rear
Thundering
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Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Battle
Dull
Far Away
Ten
Ahead
Somewhere
Begun
Cloud
Exploded
Round
Mile
Simultaneously
Suddenly
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The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Art
Acquisition
America
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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Color
Order
Resigned
Switzerland
Wire
Years
Accompanied
Wife Me Day
Although
Report
Colors
Me Wife Day
Commission
Immediately
Officer
Reached
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We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Barrels
Length
Pointing
Rifles
Trenches
Abreast
Apart
Arm
Dig
Drawn
Parallel
Placed
Platoon
Row
Stepping
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Nurse
Order
Wife
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Hospitals
Insisting
Operations
Red
Actual
Allowed
Cross
Developed
Farther
Near
Rear
Sent
Services
Troop
Volunteered
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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
Men
Accustomed
Circumstances
Conditions
Exhaustion
Nerves
Numbers
Roaring
Sheer
Spite
Trenches
Unusual
Asleep
Cannon
Number
Heads
Noticed
Quickly
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