Famous quotes containing the words long and/or history:
“Oh for some honest lover’s ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress’ scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)