Top 7 Quotes by Edith Cavell

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Edith Cavell

Hurt, People, Unhappy

The Economist (p. 107), October 15, 2010.

Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

Edith Cavell

Hate, Views, Hatred

I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

Edith Cavell

Saved, I Can

"Edith Cavell". Helen Judson, The American Journal of Nursing (p. 871), July 1941.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Edith Cavell

Hatred, Patriotism, Bitterness

Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Edith Cavell

Shrinking, Strange, No Fear

Edith Cavell's last statements prior to her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, www.firstworldwar.com. 1923.