Siegfried Sassoon

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.”

“Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread.”

“Does it matter, losing your legs? ... For people will always be kind.”

“The past is a festering wound.”

“I'd like to see a tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or 'Home, sweet Home'.”

“I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.”

“This war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.”

“I believe that this War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.”

“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

“War is a dirty trade.”

“My dreams are like the dead, recalled to life in sad array.”

“I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.”

“Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom.”

“'Good-morning; good-morning!' the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line.”

“The Old Huntsman waits in his lodge and listens for the horn.”