Famous Quotes

"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."

Sarah Bernhardt on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

• "He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

• "What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

• "What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

• "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."

• "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."