Washington Irving Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

• History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

  Washington Irving

  Men, History, Calendars

  1809 A History of NewYork, bk.4, ch.1.

• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

  Washington Irving

  History, Affection, Life Is

  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent".

• For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

  Washington Irving

  History, Honor, Add

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