Bars Quote by Roald Dahl

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair,…

— James Buchan

“History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.”

— Manjul Bajaj

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county…

— Paul Kingsnorth

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and…

— John Williams

“The approach to Earth of Halley’s Comet in the year 66 is the probable explanation of the account by Josephus of a sword that…

— Carl Sagan

“Here we are on top of the world. We have arrived at this peak to stay there forever. There is, of course, this thing…

— Graham Allison

I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj - people who…

— Karan Kapoor

“History is chronicled by conquerors.”

— J. Tullos Hennig

Only the vanquished remember history.

— Marshall McLuhan

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of…

— Benedict Wong