What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
History Quotes
In London in the southern section of the Buckingham Palace Road, walking southward along the pavement skirting the west wall of Victoria Station, the writer, once, one afternoon not long after the end of the First World War – he had failed to record the exact date – had found himself in communion, not just […]
Men make history. History does not make the man.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed, – render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Tain’t people’s ignorance that does so much harm; ’tis their knowin’ so much that ain’t so.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
