Quotes of Narrative - somelinesforyou

“ Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ History, a distillation of rumor. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ”

- Washington Irving

“ That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home. ”

- Matthew

“ Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. ”

- Richard Milhous Nixon

“ To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ”

- Orson Wells

“ Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ”

- Laurie Anderson

“ Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ There is properly no history; only biography. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ History belongs to the winner. ”

- Unknown

“ History is merely gossip. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ Vietnam told me many stories. ”

- John Whitehead

“ Religion was the lullaby of the cradle, the ghost-story told by the old woman, Superstition. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. ”

- Joe Simmons

“ Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ History never looks like history when you are living through it. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ”

- Unknown

“ History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”

- Aung San Suu Kyi
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