History Quote by Kate Morton

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.”

— Neil MacGregor

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.”

— Michael William Cook

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”

— Mark T. Barnes

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.”

— Julian Barnes

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West