Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.

Seandainya Amerika dapat mengerti perasaan kami dan ketidaknyaman kami, dia akan menyadari bahwa lautan dollar takkan dapat merebut hati kami.

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?

Terpikir olehku, bila Sang Penyelamat dari Indonesia berniat membebaskan rakyatnya, haruslah ia dapat menyelamatkan dirinya sendiri lebih dulu.

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Janganlah tuan-tuan percaya kalau sejarah itu dikatakan satu sahaja, jangan-jangan ada lain perkara di sebaliknya (Ketupat Cinta Musim Pertama)

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

...And so history gets writtento prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legendreplaces the history because the legend is more interesting.