William Faulkner Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, War, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

• War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

  William Faulkner

  War, Purpose, Fever

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.80, Vintage

• The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

  William Faulkner

  War, Self, Enemy

• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, War, Long

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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