Historical fiction Quote by Anonymous

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very droll,' Antoinette…

— Jaida Jones

“...What was the revolution for?" "Liberty. But people in France are tired of freedom. It's when people can vote that they realize how catastrophic…

— William Dietrich

“The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did not seek…

— Anaïs Nin

“Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying farmer's daughters,…

— Robert Rodat

“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with…

— Thomas Paine

“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together into sounds…

— Azar Nafisi

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.

— Katherine Langford

“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.”

— Colin Cotterill

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without…

— Frederick Douglass