History Quotes

"What we call civilization is built upon layers of forgotten truths."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, or so they say."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"I had no idea that history was being made. I thought we were just trying to get to tomorrow."

"Getting the facts of history requires much labor."

"The past cannot be changed, but it can be understood and accepted."

"History repeats itself to those who do not listen."

"Learning from history prevents future mistakes."

"The duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography."

"History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake."

"History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true."

"The key to a greater understanding is found in the study of history."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"The present is built upon the corpses of the past."

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"I am of Ireland, and the Holy Land of Ireland."

"The past is never truly past; it haunts us still."

"Martyrdom: the only way a man can become famous without ability."

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

"England would never be broken. If England was broken, it would decay like other broken things. But when England is broken, it will not decay; it will crumble into dust."

"What really matters is that the English people are as distinguished by their stupidity and hypocrisy in the twentieth century as in the tenth."

"Consider the manners of the inhabitants of the planet called the earth, especially of such of them as have mixed with each other."

"The past is always with us, shaping every moment."

"We are products of our time, yet we despair at the limitations our time imposes."

"History is largely composed of the sorrows of the innocent."

"History is not the soil of happiness."

"Before the world was made we had planned to prove his blood a crime."

"A nation is the unity of the dead, the living, and the to be born."