Wartime Quotes

“In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.”

“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.”

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”

“In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.”

“There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.”

“Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.”

“Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.”

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

“No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.”