Logo
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which w

For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
History
category

Im not keen on history being tampered with… to any extent. – Daniel Day-Lewis

Category:
History

Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes. – Jean Jaures

Category:
History

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
History

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. – Queen Elizabeth II

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Marriage is not a noun its a verb. It isnt something you get. Its something you do. Its the way you love your partner every day. – Barbara de Angelis

Category:
Love

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Genius

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something thats real most of that whiny stuff isnt real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. – Jonathan Davis

Category:
Death

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence. – John Lothrop Motley

Category:
strength