Doe Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

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

— Oscar Wilde

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

“This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate…

— Thomas Wolfe

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also…

— Walter Raleigh

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human…

— Sorin Cerin

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor