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)

    “Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)