History Quotes

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

‘History,’ Stephen said, ‘is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.

A page of history is worth a volume of logic.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.