Siegfried Sassoon Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Home, Gun, Thinking

  Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers"

• 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.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Cheer, Laughter, Home

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

• And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
  I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Betrayal, War, Home

  Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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