History Quote by Sarah Weinman

History is the study of the world's crime

— Voltaire

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing…

— John Grisham

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

— Voltaire

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

— Hermann Graf Keyserling

“there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.”

— Helen Simpson

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

— James G. Frazer

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing…

— D. V. Ager

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

— Edward Gibbon

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of…

— Clarence Darrow

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

— David Eagleman