Dull Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

“History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important. Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns…

— William J Federer

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But…

— Robert Darnton

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

— Emile M. Cioran

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

— Douglas Hurd

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

— Colin Quinn