Logo
Quote by Augustine Birrell
That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

Other quotes by Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

Category:
Books
Author
Augustine Birrell
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

Category:
History

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of mans first attempts to order his view of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

Category:
History
[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

Category:
History

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
History

Random Quotes

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

Category:
Conformity

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

Category:
Religion

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Government

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Happiness