Sir Edward Grey, watching a
lamplighter at work on a London street,
just as World War I was beginning,
said: “The lamps are going out all over
Europe, and we shall not see them lit
again in our lifetime.”
Also attributed to: Edward Grey
On the eve of World War I, Grey mourned that the lights of civilization in Europe were going out, perhaps for a generation.
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