History Quote by Morris West

History is written by the victor

— Anonymous

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy

History is written by the victors.

— Winston Churchill

“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.”

— Megan Smolenyak

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

— Michael William Cook

“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

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

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

— Sebastien de Castell

“History is written by the legends.”

— Evan Ricafort

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

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

— Neil MacGregor

“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