Cases Quote by Anonymous

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

— Gore Vidal

History is merely gossip

— Oscar Wilde

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history.…

— Gore Vidal

History is only gossip.

— Oscar Wilde

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

— Ambrose Bierce

History: gossip well told.

— Elbert Hubbard

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

— Barbara Kruger

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

— Voltaire

History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

HIStory: Because HERstory would just be gossip.

— Green Monk

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

— Gore Vidal

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