History Quotes

"I have walked this earth longer than your species has existed."

"History repeats itself for those who will not learn from it"

"History repeats itself through human nature."

"History is written by the victors, and we are always the vanquished."

"The glass paperweight contained the past."

"The past has no physical existence. It exists in records, in memory. The Party is in control of all records and, we control all memory."

"The past is whatever the Party says it is."

"Memory is a weapon we must control in order to control the present."

"To understand the present, one must rewrite the past."

"It is our custom to destroy documents, to rewrite records, to tamper with the written word."

"The new Oceania does not and will not exist in any of our records until we choose that it shall."

"The past is whatever the Party says it is. It is because they control all records, and they control all memories."

"It is our custom to destroy documents at regular intervals to make sure a general loss of memory throughout the Party."

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England"

"The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street"

"The wine shop was much the same"

"The past is never truly past; it haunts the present."

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England"

"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms"

"When the grinding wheel of the Revolution gathers momentum, it crushes all before it"

"The wine shop bore the modest inscription, Monsieur Defarge"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

"There are moments when History becomes Allegory."

"The past clings to us like shadows we cannot escape"

"The Pequod's a Quaker; its a Quaker also in the Equatorial waters"

"I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any importance in the world's history."

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England"

"The strong tide of the French Revolution swept them all along"

"In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, history shall be made"

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England"