John Harington famous quotes

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  • History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

  • All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

  • History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

  • Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

  • I think things happened the way they did for a reason

  • The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

  • Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

  • The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

  • Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

  • I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.