Quotes About Narrative

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

History is no criminal court

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.