Accidents Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly…

— Simon Schama

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the…

— Adam Hochschild

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the…

— Tadashi Yanai

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything…

— Michael Apted

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions…

— Anna Pavlova

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

— Theodor Adorno

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down…

— Malcolm Bradbury

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

“year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English…

— Charles Dickens

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

I've got no problem with getting history wrong for a purpose - Shakespeare often got things wrong for a reason. But it's the randomised…

— David Starkey

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield