Historical Accuracy Quotes

“That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Well, yes there are certainly quite a few wannabe Saatchis around, but I'm dealing more with the ones trying to buy back the great antiquities from European and American collectors. Or, as they like to say, stuff stolen by the foreign devils", Oliver said”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

“What shall they say about this moment if there is anything to say at all? And not just this moment we experience, but this period of history. What shall they say about it? And tracing this vast arc to 10,000 years from now, what will matter of all of this? Will it be what we take now as trivial—that faint aroma of petrichor, perhaps—but what, by their archivists, by their categories of prominence, they take to be as quintessential of this holy now? The herald of a cleansing rain, perhaps! How will this story be told and will it do these fleeting seconds justice? Will it betray what we know as now, or will it indeed be truer to the experience of now-then than now-now?”
― Ashim Shanker, Inward and Toward

“He is telling us who will defect from Vitellius. He wrote this in April. Vespasian wasn’t hailed imperator until the first of July.’ That date had been engraved on my liver since I first heard it. You will find it at my death, if you care to cut me open and look.

-- Lady Caenis”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War

“Historical accuracy often fell victim when it came to matters of political or religious convenience.”
― H. L. Tinsley