Quotes About History

He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.

Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances contained in two covers of yellow paper, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even thought they be gilded like yourself.

this is the first part of this precious manuscript

Alexandre Dumas

Recuando no passado, esqueço o presente; percorrendo livre e independente a História, esqueço-me de que estou preso

Alexandre Dumas

Albert, bien peu ont traversé ces révolutions au milieu desquelles nous sommes nés, sans que quelque tache de boue ou de sang ait souillé leur uniforme de soldat ou leur robe de juge. Albert

The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance.

Ahora bien, a mí me agradan los fantasmas, nunca he oído decir que los muertos hayan hecho en seis mil años tanto daño como los vivos en un solo día.

and who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Alexandre Dumas

short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.

I have to admit that my historical work is my favourite occupation. When I go back to the past, I forget the present. I walk free and independently through history, and forget that I am a prisoner.

Alexandre Dumas

añadamos que, en aquellos tiempos de moral quebradiza, tampoco se avergonzaban de que sus amantes les regalaran con mucha frecuencia preciosos y perdurables recuerdos, como si tratasen de fortalecer la fragilidad de sus sentimientos con la solidez de sus presentes. Era

d'Anne d'Autriche

Chacun connaît ce retour de l'île d'Elbe, retour étrange, miraculeux, qui, sans exemple dans le passé, restera probablement sans imitation dans l'avenir.

Leave us our poor relics, Roman, and do not complete the work of your fathers. They came as conquerors; you come as a friend. What was barbarism on their part, would be sacrilege on yours.

Crear personajes que matan a los de los historiadores es privilegio de los novelistas, El motivo es que los historiadores evocan a simples fantasmas, mientras que los novelistas crean a personas de carne y hueso.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; whence it must be inferred, that all the blacks who are now to be found in that hemisphere are either slaves or freedmen.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.