Philip Gibbs
Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbswas an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Two of his siblings were also writers, A. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton, as was his own son, Anthony. Gibbs was a Roman Catholic...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth1 May 1877
lying world rotting
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.
hate good-friend justice
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.
generals optimism ourselves therefore worth
The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe.
It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
chance defended fortress front line masses miles thousands twenty wide
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!
running years car
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.
men pork hungry
There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.
sorry war hate
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.