Sayings about History:

I have heard one of the greatest geniuses this age has produced, who had been trained up in all the polite studies of antiquity, assure me, upon his being obliged to search into records, that he at last took, an incredible pleasure in it.
Joseph Addison
In histories composed by politicians they are for drawing up a perpetual scheme of causes and events, and preserving a constant correspondence between the camp and the council-table.
Joseph Addison
All history is only the precepts of moral philosophy reduced into examples.
John Dryden
The great disadvantage our historians labour under is too tedious an interruption by the insertion of records in their narration.
Henry Felton
I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing a universal history from the historians.
Henry Felton
History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
Thomas Fuller
Read their history in a nation’s eyes.
John Gay
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself.
Edward Gibbon
Sir Walter Raleigh, so far as he hath gone in the History of the World, is matchable with the best of the ancients.
George Hakewill
The perusal of a history seems a calm entertainment, but would be no entertainment at all did not our hearts beat with correspondent emotions to those which are described by the historian.
David Hume
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies, and the quarrels, of those who engage in contention for power?
William Paley
The great events of Greek and Roman fable and history, which early education and the usual course of reading have made familiar and interesting to all Europe, without being degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life in any country.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
- And what’s her History?
- A blank, my lord.
William Shakespeare
What are most of the histories of the world but lies? Lies immortalized and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and flaw upon prosperity.
Robert South
History is the complement of poetry.
Sir James Stephen
How shall any man who hath a genius for history undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years?
Jonathan Swift
Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes!
For now I see the true old times are dead.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Histories engage the soul by sensible occurrences, as also voyages, travels, and accounts of countries.
Dr. Isaac Watts
History is necessary to divines.
Dr. Isaac Watts
He is particularly pleased with Livy for his manner of telling a story, and with Sallust for his entering into eternal principles of action.
Dr. Isaac Watts
Various writers have undertaken to build romance upon history; but few, except those who have occupied themselves with researches into its sources, are aware how much of history itself is nothing more than legend and romance.
Thomas Wright
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