Affair Quote by Michel De Montaigne

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of…

— Artur Davis

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men

— Anonymous

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

— Lord Acton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central…

— George Santayana

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk