Danube/history

Famous quotes containing the words danube and/or history:

    “The Danube to the Severn gave
    The darken’d heart that beat no more;
    They laid him by the pleasant shore,
    And in the hearing of the wave.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)