Degrees Quote by Peter Morgan

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

We are all historians in our small way.

— Jeanette Winterson

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good…

— Robert Rhodes James

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate…

— Tony Kushner

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call…

— Jim Cooper

The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally…

— Ronald Ross

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

— David Dixon

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the…

— Richard Whately

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will…

— Anonymous

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer