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

- Philip Gibbs

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 engag…

- Philip Gibbs

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

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

- Philip Gibbs

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 wor…

- Philip Gibbs

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 …

- Philip Gibbs

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 Fron…

- Philip Gibbs

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 p…

- Philip Gibbs

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

- Philip Gibbs