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Author - Vera Brittain
Quotes by : Vera Brittain
glorification of war
It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mortal....
war
I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and....
war
Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something....
war
When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women....
individuality
When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening....
youth
Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore....
hope
The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spiritual....
suffering
People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philosophy....
marriage
Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice the....
death
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would....
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