Famous quotes by Historians

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Great writers are the saints for the godless"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player"

Eric Williams, Historian

"I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do"

Eric Williams, Historian

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just!"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

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