Catalogues Quote by A. J. P. Taylor Download Open image “History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.” — A. J. P. Taylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catalogues Convincing Events History Inspirational Versions
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. — Donald Creighton Copy Share Image
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. — Donald Creighton Copy Share Image
History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things.… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
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