Battle Quote by Walter Jon Williams

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who…

— Theodore Bikel

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the…

— Duke of Wellington

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

— Penelope Lively

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

— Jodi Picoult

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History has been the history of warfare.

— Godfrey Reggio

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

— Terry Pratchett

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history,…

— Kate Morton

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

— Anton Chekhov

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a…

— Anonymous

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle