--- title: "9 Happened Told Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Happened Told quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Happened Told sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/philip-k-dick-502_funny_it-s-not-what-happened-but-how-it-is-tol_199792.jpg" --- > [It's not what happened but how it is told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/it-s-not-what-happened-but-how-it-is-told/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/philip-k-dick-502_funny_it-s-not-what-happened-but-how-it-is-tol_199792.jpg) > [History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ram-n-g-mez-de-la-serna/history-is-something-that-never-happened-told-by-someone-who-wasn-t/) [Ramon Gomez de la Serna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ram-n-g-mez-de-la-serna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/ram-n-g-mez-de-la-serna-39601_funny_history-is-something-that-never-happened_1996435.jpg) > [“What happened was, I told you I loved you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-echols/what-happened-was-i-told-you-i-loved-you/) [Jennifer Echols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-echols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d4/jennifer-echols-943_happened_what-happened-was-i-told-you-i-loved-you_2842235.png) > [History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/history-is-a-pack-of-lies-about-events-that-never-happened-told-by-2/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/george-santayana-478_events_history-is-a-pack-of-lies-about-events-t_1358899.png) > [“He had never realised, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audrey-niffenegger/he-had-never-realised-while-elspeth-was-alive-the-extent-to-which-a/) [Audrey Niffenegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audrey-niffenegger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/audrey-niffenegger-1298_alive_he-had-never-realised-while-elspeth-was_325010.jpg) > [“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elspeth-marr/history-is-not-what-happened-but-what-you-are-told-has-happened/) [Elspeth Marr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elspeth-marr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74a/elspeth-marr-59018_history_history-is-not-what-happened-but-what-yo_429062.jpg) > [“The whole way up, I shared with a captive audience everything that had happened. I told them about the officer, telling me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-heil/the-whole-way-up-i-shared-with-a-captive-audience-everything-that-had/) [Michael J Heil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-heil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d2/michael-j-heil-19861_condemned_the-whole-way-up-i-shared-with-a-captive_2318290.jpg) > [“She laughed. She thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. This is what should have happened. We shouldn’t have spent a minute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-j-shen/she-laughed-she-thought-it-was-a-joke-it-wasn-t-this-is-what-should/) [L.J. Shen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-j-shen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/l-j-shen-1983_quote_she-laughed-she-thought-it-was-a-joke-it_449854.jpg) > [“The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-gardner/the-floor-had-become-a-sea-and-the-bed-a-ship-seen-from-a-great/) [Sally Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-gardner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/sally-gardner-17584_dreamed_the-floor-had-become-a-sea-and-the-bed-a_2775141.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happened-told/#itemlist", "name": "Happened Told Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's not what happened but how it is told.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip K. 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