History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
History is sympathetic to its authors.
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.
"Some credit him with saving more human lives than any other person in history."
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
8) History never repeats itself.
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
History is just one bloody thing after another.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
History is on the side of the regulators.