The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Download Customize

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

— Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
history imagination perspective reading

More “History” Quotes

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that histo — Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on — Bernice L. McFadden, Glorious
What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could — Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the c — Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. — William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. — Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile — Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of — Karl Marx
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow
There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,Whispers of a moment suspended in time,Where every life that you've br — Erin Hanson
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road. — John Grisham, The Testament