Julian Fellowes Quotes

I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

History is a great dust heap.