Famous quotes containing the words history, english, short and/or split:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)