About Quote by Niall Ferguson

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

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how…

— Robert Lowell

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

— Anonymous

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas…

— David Cannadine

“Giving the dead a voice, letting their signatures on life be witnessed, is reason enough for my history. The voices of the dead in…

— Greg Denning

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform…

— Anonymous

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life…

— Ralph Davis

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

— Kedar Joshi

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges