History Quote by Tony Perrottet Download Open image ““Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”” — Tony Perrottet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet Copy Share Image
“Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.” — Melissa Lynne Blue Copy Share Image
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. — John Holland Rose Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.” — Tony Perrottet Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
