Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

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