Dungeon/history

Famous quotes containing the words dungeon and/or history:

    “An exile, saddest of all prisoners,
    Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong,
    Seas, mountains, and the horizon’s verge for bars.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)