Example Quote by George Croly Download Open image “All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.” — George Croly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Example History Love Romance
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been… — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings.… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“Romance novels can be broken down into two broad categories: historical romances, which utilize a wide variety of historical backdrops, and contemporary romances. The… — Cathie Linz Copy Share Image
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance,… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear. — George Croly Copy Share Image
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion… — George Croly Copy Share Image
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the… — George Croly Copy Share Image
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. — George Croly Copy Share Image
“How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!” — George Croly Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God. — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work. — Brandon Ingram Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
