Quotes About Sassoon

Yet 'homosexual soldiers were very brave warriors … [and] homosexual officers were especially noted for their kindly treatment of the men entrusted to them'. It was a phenomenon borne out by the experience and practice of officers such as Sassoon and Owen.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.

The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.

One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. 'Certainly not,' he replied. 'What have I got then?' 'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.