Top 100 Wilfred Quotes
#1. Hart, you'd schedule Christ's second comimg and have Wilfred send him an itinery.
Jennifer Ashley
#2. I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
David Rudisha
#3. I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .
George Packer
#4. I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
Pat Barker
#5. I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.
Jason Gann
#6. Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'.
'How we roared!
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.
Gil Gerard
#8. War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
Michael Morpurgo
#9. As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.
Eugene B. Sledge
#10. Wilfred Funk writes in Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories that originally all words were poems, since our language is based, like poems, in metaphor.
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
#11. The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'
Jason Gann
#12. Some say God caught them even before they fell.
Wilfred Owen
#13. Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
Wilfred Bion
#14. But let my death be memoried on this disc.
Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.
But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day,
Until the name grow vague and wear away.
Wilfred Owen
#15. Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
Wilfred Owen
#16. Move him into the sun-
gently its touch awoke him once,
Wilfred Owen
#17. No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
Wilfred Owen
#19. The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen
#20. An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Wilfred Trotter
#22. Where only angels tread, he would be a fool to rush in; though perhaps the wise may preserve their dignity if, aware of their presumption, they enter cautiously.
Wilfred Cantwell Smith
#23. Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Wilfred Owen
#24. These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
Wilfred Owen
#25. The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.
Wilfred Trotter
#26. All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
Wilfred Owen
#28. There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray
As men's are, dead.
Wilfred Owen
#29. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one
Wilfred Owen
#30. I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair
But mocks the steady running of the hour
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here
Wilfred Owen
#31. The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
Wilfred Bion
#32. All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
Wilfred Owen
#33. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.
Wilfred Grenfell
#34. Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Wilfred Owen
#35. The dust that fell unnoted as a dew,
Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth
Wilfred Owen
#36. Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
Wilfred Burchett
#37. Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
Wilfred Bion
#38. Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.
Wilfred Owen
#39. The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.
Wilfred Trotter
#40. I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen
#41. Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Wilfred Owen
#42. In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett
#44. We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
Wilfred Bion
#45. The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Wilfred Grenfell
#46. I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
Wilfred Owen
#47. And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
Wilfred Owen
#48. A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
Wilfred Owen
#49. In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.
Wilfred Thesiger
#50. I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
Wilfred Thesiger
#51. The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred Owen
#52. Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
Wilfred Owen
#53. Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
Wilfred Burchett
#54. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
Wilfred Grenfell
#56. Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Wilfred Owen
#57. Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Wilfred Owen
#59. It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
Wilfred Bion
#60. It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
Wilfred Owen
#61. As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett
#62. France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
Wilfred Burchett
#63. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.
Wilfred Thesiger
#64. Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
Wilfred Burchett
#65. Wisdom or oblivion - take your choice. From that warfare there is no release.
Wilfred R. Bion
#66. The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
Wilfred Trotter
#67. My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.
Wilfred Owen
#68. I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed.
Wilfred Owen
#69. When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
Wilfred Burchett
#70. Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
Wilfred Burchett
#71. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid
Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,
Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,
And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.
Wilfred Owen
#72. The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
Wilfred Bion
#73. The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
Wilfred Owen
#74. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen
#75. Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Wilfred Owen
#76. Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
Wilfred Owen
#77. I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
Wilfred Owen
#78. Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
Wilfred Owen
#79. I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
Wilfred Owen
#80. In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
Wilfred Burchett
#81. Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
Wilfred Owen
#82. All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen
#83. As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
Wilfred Owen
#84. Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
Wilfred Trotter
#85. I tried to peg out soldierly,
no use!
One dies of war like any old disease.
Wilfred Owen
#86. Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
Wilfred Burchett
#87. After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Wilfred Owen
#88. The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.
Wilfred Thesiger
#89. Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.
Wilfred Owen
#90. For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping may something have been left,
Which must die now.
Wilfred Owen
#91. If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.
Wilfred Bion
#93. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#94. I tasted freedom and a way of life from which there could be no recall.
Wilfred Thesiger
#95. He's lost his colour very far from here,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry
Wilfred Owen
#96. Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
Wilfred Grenfell
#97. My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
Wilfred Burchett
#98. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
#100. Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
Wilfred Bion
