Quotes on history

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Topics: always, heedless, himself

“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.”

Topics: brought, certainly, christianity

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

Topics: acknowledged, good, history

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

Topics: certain, dancing, falling

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

Topics: determined, easily, forgive

“The sooner every party breaks up, the better.”

Topics: better, breaks, every

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

Topics: cannot, despotism, history

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

Topics: always, another, best

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

Topics: alive, history, laugh

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

Topics: although, history, jane

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