1916 Quotes

“A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.”
― S.M. Sigerson, The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth?

“Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.”
― Michael Collins

“Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.”
― Tim Pat Coogan, 1916: The Easter Rising

“My [early] tales were strangely enough 'society' tales; strangely enough, because I know about as much of 'society' as of the Great Horned Owl.”
― Arthur Machen, Collected Fiction Volume 1: 1888-1895

“I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.”
― Dana Burnet, The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story

“In the country, a semicircle is the shortest line between two points.”
― Dana Burnet, The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story

“He pushed another bag along the top,
Craning his body outward; then a flare
Gave one white glimpse of No Man's Land and wire;
And as he dropped his head the instant split
His startled life with lead, and all went out.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems