History Quote by Alexandre Dumas Père Download Open image “Antiquity is the aristocracy of history” — Alexandre Dumas Père ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate — Alexandre Dumas Père Copy Share Image
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing — Alexandre Dumas Père Copy Share Image
“No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ...” — Alexandre Dumas pere Copy Share Image
“these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after” — Alexandre Dumas Père Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
