Portrait/history

Famous quotes containing the words portrait and/or history:

“Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)