Quotes About War

All fair in love and war.

War can´t kill love. Love can kill war.

Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!

Love is like war; begin when you like and leave off when you can

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times if you are going to be married

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one's own kin was quite another.

I could only hope he'd be called up soon to return to his regiment, and if the gods be just, kicked in the head by a horse.

Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She

The youngest son of an officer in Bonaparte's army, Hugo was born in 1802 near the Swiss border, in Besançon. Two years later, his mother, a confirmed royalist, gave up on her marriage, leaving Major Hugo to his mistress and his wars.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?

Máquina» es un término periodístico. Los términos inexactos como ese forman parte de la psicosis de la guerra. Las personas no son máquinas, aunque quieran serlo. Hay que empezar en alguna parte. ?Pero mientras tanto muchas personas inocentes van a sufrir. ?Lo sé, y eso es precisamente el quid de la cuestión. Podría decirse, y es cierto, que la guerra es como un bumerang y resulta imposible garantizar la seguridad de nadie a la larga.

war's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run.

La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?

where there is war there's spoil. From this it was not far to roving on adventure. Young men could set themselves up in life; kings could grow rich without hard taxes, which pleased their people;

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies

War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.

This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles. For safety's sake, then, hyperbole should be used with restraint and only by those with proper literary training.