Quotes by Philip Gibbs - Page 1

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Men
Hungry
Pork
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It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Costs
Lend
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It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Lend
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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Money
Giving
Helping Others
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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Done
Fighting
Prohibition
Units
Handicap
Naming
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At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Faith
Cost
Spiritual
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In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Running
Car
Years
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
War
Conflict
Months
News
Office
Regarding
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A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
France
Next Time
Time War Me
Appeared
Arrest
War Time Me
Orders
Warned
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
War
Battle
Engaged
Retreat
Victory
Announced
French
Forces
Minister
Sign
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
War
Do You Know
France
Glad
Hate
Sorry
Love War Hate
Germans
Shall
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Lying
Remembered
Rotting
World
Lie
Reward
Shall
World Peace
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
War
Fighting
France
Sleep
Socialist
Shall
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If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Good Friend
Hate
Justice
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Morning
Avenues
Cities
Deserted
Heels
High Heels
Loud
Pavement
Quiet
Shops
Barred
Companions
Windows
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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!
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Chance
Cavalry
Miles
Position
Wide
Arc
Defended
Guns
Deep
Entrenched
Fortified
Front
Line
Masses
No Chance
Thousands
Twenty
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All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Officers
Papers
Port
Scotland
Afterwards
Demanded
Lieutenant
Rank
Reached
Whom
Yard
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Cracks
Bursts
Hall
Lay
Search
Sharp
Soldiers
Square
Town Hall
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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.
Philip Gibbs / Journalist
Battle
Columns
Fire
Overhead
Shells
Smoke
Sound
German
Burst
Each One
Front
Front Line
Meeting
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