Heels Quote by Walter Raleigh

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement…

— Sebastian Barry

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

— George Herbert

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins…

— Anne Enright

“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it…

— Sean DeLauder

“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet”

— Andreï Makine

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone