Fiddle/history

Famous quotes containing the words fiddle and/or history:

    It needs more skill than I can tell
    To play the second fiddle well.
    —C.H. (Charles Haddon)

    It’s a very delicate surgical operation—to cut out the heart without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we’ll do the best we can.
    Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. Sorel (Philip Merivale)