I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student.... →
Amy Chua
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history... →
History is written by the victors.
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
Sarah Churchwell
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence... →
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
John G. D. Clark