History quotes

“Nothing better for a prosecutor than a criminal with a sense of history. Everything got written down. Who they killed, and what it cost. Meticulous record-keepers.”
Leland Orser - Bernie

“- Interviewer: What's the difference between Orgazmo and your previous porn titles, like Schindler's Fist?
- Maxxx Orbison: I really think history will describe Orgazmo better than I possibly could.”
Ben Patrick Johnson - Interviewer
Michael Dean Jacobs - Maxxx Orbison

“- Bill: It is indeed a pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman we picked up in medieval Mongolia in the year 1269.
- Ted: Please welcome, the very excellent barbarian...
- Ted, Bill: ...Mr. Genghis Khan!
- Ted: This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.”

Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“- Miles Massey: Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Henry the Eighth. What do they have in common?
- Wrigley: Middle name?”
George Clooney - Miles
Paul Adelstein - Wrigley

“- Botanist: Listen, you can no longer avoid history! I'm sorry. I've said that!
- Learoyd: Shut up. History? The world's so full of crap, sooner or later, you're gonna step in it. You call that history?”
Nigel Havers - Botanist
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is all in the telling.”
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.”
Angus Macfadyen - Robert the Bruce

“A man's character is his fate. And as a student of history, I find this hard to refute. For most of us our stories can be written long before we die.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“- Stromberg: I intend to change the face of history.
- Major Anya Amasova: By destroying the world?”
Curd Jürgens - Stromberg
Barbara Bach - Major Anya Amasova

“All your life has been spent in pursuit of archaeological relics. Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it opened as well as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. This is history.”
Paul Freeman - Belloq

“It's a very difficult surgical operation. Cut the heart out without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we'll do the best we can.”
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel

“The American Revolution was not a goddamned vaudeville show!”

Alan Alda - Michael Burgess

“- Emily Appleton: You're a treasure hunter, aren't you?
- Mitch Wilkinson: I'm just a man, trying to make his mark on history.”
Helen Mirren - Emily Appleton
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson

“- Todd Bowden: I want to hear about it.
- Kurt Dussander: Hear about what?
- Todd Bowden: The stories. Everything.
- Kurt Dussander: What everything?
- Todd Bowden: Everything they're afraid to show us in school. You were there. You did those things. No one can tell it better than you can.”

Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody? Because that's not what Rome is about! We should totally just stab Caesar!”

Lacey Chabert - Gretchen Wieners

“You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - King Henry VIII

“In just a few hours you can be assured of going down in history as the Typhoid Mary of Oz. G'day.”
Dougray Scott - Sean Ambrose

“I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Saddam, Sadat, etcetera, etcetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time...” (continue)(continue reading)

Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“Conan mourned his lost Valeria. At length he sought adventure in distant lands and trod the jeweled thrones of the earth beneath his sandaled feet. Until at last, he found his own kingdom and wore his crown upon a troubled brow.”
Mako - Akiro 'The Wizard'

“- Lee Donley: I believe this is how the Chicago fire got started.
- Gloria Anderson: The Chicago fire was started by a cow.
- Lee Donley: History repeats itself.”

Ann Sheridan - Lee Donley
Helen Vinson - Gloria Anderson

“It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“We can deny our heritage and our history but we cannot escape responsibility for the result.”
David Strathairn - Edward R. Murrow

“It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history.”

Marlon Brando - Jor-El

“The Second World War was quite a disaster for poor old Italy. Their Fascist leader, Mussolini, had teamed up with Hitler and thought he was on a winning ticket. Now, in 1948, the country is still leaderless, broke, and heading for chaos.”
Danny Huston - Orson Welles