Pencil/history

Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or history:

    “The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
    There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
    —Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)