Books Quote by Kit Reed

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

An old novel has a history of its own.

— Alexander Smith

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” – Mark Twain The history of our world…

— Mike Hockney

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

— Swami Vivekananda

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

How can knowing more be a bad thing? You can only look each other in the eye when you know the history the world…

— Andi Oliver

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

— Derek Walcott