Historic Ruins

Famous quotes containing the words historic and/or ruins:

“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)