History Quote by Tony Perrottet Download Open image ““Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”” — Tony Perrottet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Whenever anyone tells me that history's 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
“The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine.” — Melissa Lynne Blue Copy Share Image
“I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me,” Napoleon vaunted.” — Kate Williams Copy Share Image
“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
“But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.” — Darren Pillsbury Copy Share Image
“My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“Whenever anyone tells me that history's 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
