George Saintsbury: Quotes about history

George Saintsbury was British literary critic. Explore interesting quotes on history.
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“[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

George Saintsbury

Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32

“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”

George Saintsbury

Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.

“The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.”

George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.