Book Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to…

— Mary Beard

History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action,…

— Walter Wink

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right…

— Anonymous

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but…

— James Anthony Froude

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

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble…

— Eleanor Clark