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History Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- History is merely gossip
- As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good…
- That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply…
- As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
- The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the…
- The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
- America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
- Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
- My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is…
- Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient…
- The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
- The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough