Uhlan/history/world War I

Famous quotes containing the words war i, history, world and/or war:

    “War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    “Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

    “At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)