Historical-fiction Quotes

...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater t...

Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of...

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal fa...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I ...

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one w...

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities we...

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human ...

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking abo...

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did so...

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. So...

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I t...

Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisono...

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

Up and up they went, still a cable's length apart; but slowly, for the ape was footsore and desponde...

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid re...

Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper...

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situat...

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the ...

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heighte...

Anything from Kipling

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait a...

Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry....

William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understa...

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink ...

She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had de...

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he ...

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he ...

Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry...

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the...

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each...

They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriousl...

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.

It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of sold...

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

So we rode through a broken gate in a broken wall into a broken town, and it was dusk, and the day's...

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored ...

They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than ...

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your f...

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look a...

You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them l...

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their ...

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this fami...

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...

...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the p...