Quotes About History

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.