Secret History Quotes

Many Americans have a traitor lurking somewhere in their family tree.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

The true history of the American Revolution can never be written… A great many if the people in those days were not at all what they seemed, nor what they were generally believed to be.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.