Funny Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image “History is the lies of the victors,” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny History Inspirational Love Lying Self delusion
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?” — Michael Duncan Copy Share Image
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians. — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
