History is always written wrong,
and so always needs to be rewritten.
?George Santayana
Had Cleopatra's nose been
shorter, the whole face of the world
would have been different.
?Blaise Pascal
The fate of a nation has often
depended on the food or bad
digestion of a prime minister.
?Voltaire
I have written too much history to have
faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong,
I am inclined to agree with him.
?Henry Adams
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
?Philip Guedalla
History is nothing but a pack of
tricks that we play on the dead.
?Voltaire
The history of mankind is little else
than a narrative of designs which
have failed and hopes that have
been disappointed.
?Samuel Johnson
The Holy Roman Empire was neither
holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
?Voltaire
The very ink with which history is
written is merely fluid prejudice.
?Mark Twain
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of
history. The history of mankind is
little else than a narrative of designs
which have failed and hopes that
have been disappointed.
?Samuel Johnson
History: A distillation of rumor.
?Thomas Carlyle
History would be wonderful
thing - if it were only true.
?Leo Tolstoy
