History Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who…

— Socrates

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

— Aeschylus

“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand for new…

— Ronald Carter

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be…

— Joseph Addison

“Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded…

— Edward Gibbon

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why…

— Thomas Jefferson

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type…

— Garry Kasparov

“Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire said that the following five attributes marked Rome at its end: first,…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all…

— Anonymous

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical…

— Arthur Lynch

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

— Edward Gibbon