Heroes Chronicles/story

Famous quotes containing the words heroes, chronicles and/or story:

“The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)