History Quote by Joanne M. Harris

“... to say we would repeat history was unfair when that history was unknown to us.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.”

— E. M. Cioran

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”

— Paula Wall

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières