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Philip Gibbs Quotes

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

Philip Gibbs
Men, Pork, Hungry

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs
Money, Helping Others, Giving

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.

Philip Gibbs
Running, Years, Car
Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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.

Philip Gibbs
Hate, Good Friend, Justice

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.

Philip Gibbs
Lying, World, Rotting
Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

Philip Gibbs
Faith, Spiritual, Cost
Gibbs (Sir Philip Hamilton.), Philip Gibbs (1933). “Ways of Escape”

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Philip Gibbs
Morning, High Heels, Cities
Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Philip Gibbs
War, Office, Months

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Philip Gibbs
Fighting, Done, Prohibition
Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

Philip Gibbs
War, Victory, Battle

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

Philip Gibbs
War, Sleep, Fighting
Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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.

Philip Gibbs
Sorry, Hate, War
Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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