History Quotes

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells “Can’t you remember anything I told you?!” and lets fly with a club.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

History is merely gossip.