An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Is all one generation can do to set the stage for the comic, sad story of the next?” — G.B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“From the point of view of future history, this kind, we'll be invisible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right. — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever… — James Daly Copy Share Image
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon… — Sergio Ramos Copy Share Image
Being from Colorado is, to me, very, very special. I'm just very thankful to be here. I'm also thankful to be a… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists,… — Arman Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much had the white man as simply as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the… — Lavinia Milosovici Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The history doesn't repeat itself, it’s just their methods repeats. 27.06.11” — VicDo Copy Share Image
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if you just screwed with history or if history just screwed with you.” — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“These must be the most depressing words in the history of love. I tried really hard to love you.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
