Affair Quote by Robin Hobb

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel for them?…

— Saul Bellow

History paints the human heart.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

— Han Suyin

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then…

— Oscar Wilde

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

— Albert Camus

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit…

— Queen Elizabeth II

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected…

— Rebecca Solnit