History Quote by Jane Austen

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels…

— Jane Austen

“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as I told…

— William Stephens

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman

“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control…

— Anonymous

“It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our power when…

— Tosca Lee

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a…

— Zoe Saldana

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

— Jane Haddam

“...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to…

— Christopher West

“This man was the pope, president, and god of dodging the topic. Too bad for him he was dealing with the queen, holy mother,…

— Nicole Williams

“That we shall, in like manner, without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, church-government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors,…

— Various

“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless…

— Kenneth Clark

“Here haue I cause, in men iust blame to find, That in their proper prayse too partiall bee, And not indifferent to woman kind,…

— Edmund Spenser