History Quote by Daniel Hannan

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

— Argus Hamilton

“Riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with…

— Cormac McCarthy

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

— John Ralston Saul

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”

— Joanne M. Harris

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

“He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.”

— Bernard Cornwell

Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is…

— Sarah Vowell

“They were cunning,deceitful,arrogant and nearly incomprehensible,especially the Anglos. They were dangerous because they hid their thoughts,hid their feelings behind a smiling face. Who could…

— Louise Penny

“The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.”

— Ian McEwan

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr