George Orwell

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.