Fritz Kreisler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Genius #Half #World
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Order #Color #Years
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#War #Wife #Switzerland
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Sound #Roaring #Welcome
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Confused #War #Army
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Order #Nurse #Wife
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Glowing #Enthusiasm #Hours
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Men #Suffering #Saws
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Heart #Energy #Virtue
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Order #Police #Relaxation
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Men #Numbers #Roaring
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Eye #Mind #Lines

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