Quotation Theory Quotes

“The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that ‘historians’ of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?”
― Steven Brust, The Lord of Castle Black