History Quote by Jules Verne

“Even the triumphant issue of his labors could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire…

— Paul S. Kemp

“He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.”

— Arthur Slade

“When the conquests stopped, the empire moved into a steady state or, more bluntly, it stagnated.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human…

— Thomas F. Madden

“Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts…

— Joe Abercrombie

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.”

— Mavis Gallant

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

— Janet Wallach

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam