Quotes from work

The History Boys

“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”

“I don't always understand poetry!'

'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it… whenever.”

“Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.”

“Cloisters, ancient libraries… I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”

“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”

“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”