Philip Gibbs Quotes

• Hay poesía en una chuleta de cerdo para un hombre hambriento.

  Philip Gibbs

  Men, Pork, Hungry

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• It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

  Philip Gibbs

  Money, Helping Others, Giving

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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

  Running, Years, Car

  Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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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

  Hate, Good Friend, Justice

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• Los que vayamos a morir seremos recordados porque hemos dado la paz al mundo. Esa será nuestra recompensa, aunque no sabremos nada de ella, sino que yaceremos pudriéndonos en la tierra, muertos.

  Philip Gibbs

  Lying, World, Rotting

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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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

  Faith, Spiritual, Cost

  Gibbs (Sir Philip Hamilton.), Philip Gibbs (1933). “Ways of Escape”

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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.

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  Morning, High Heels, Cities

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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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

  War, Office, Months

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• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  Philip Gibbs

  Fighting, Done, Prohibition

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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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

  War, Victory, Battle

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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

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Sorry, Hate, War

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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