History Quote by Mak_786

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go…

— Colin Firth

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to…

— Candice Millard

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

— Herbert Butterfield

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

I like to think I'm a recovering historian.

— Margaret MacMillan

“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike it. So…

— Jane Austen

I'm a historian in my own mind.

— Quentin Tarantino