Famous quotes containing the words history of the, history of, history, lands and/or crown:
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The sea
Severs not only lands but also selves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wat’ry glade.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)