Portrait/history

Famous quotes containing the words portrait and/or history:

“Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)