He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.