Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)