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)

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