Dungeon/history

Famous quotes containing the words dungeon and/or history:

    “An exile, saddest of all prisoners,
    Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong,
    Seas, mountains, and the horizon’s verge for bars.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
    —E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)