Fireplace/history

Famous quotes containing the words fireplace and/or history:

“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)