History Is Boring Quotes

#1. Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Tony Perrottet

#2. History is boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It's not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It's what comes before history that isn't boring.

Kathryn Davis

#3. Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.

T.C. Boyle

#4. Those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

Booker T. Washington

#5. A date, "often a boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case, "an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.

Cassandra Clare

#6. We need proof in our society.

Shirley Maclaine

#7. Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

Claire Danes

#8. It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Richard Bach

#9. A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

Alex Blumberg

#10. Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Tony Perrottet

#11. The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Patricia Highsmith

#12. This stuff doesn't matter. What matters is what you do with it." Sara snaps the highlighter cap on. "I try not to think about how boring it is (History). I just keep reminding myself about how I want my life to be and what I have to do to get there. Then it's simple.

Susane Colasanti

#13. She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. All men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

George Eliot

#15. If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. Apparently we believe
in the words
and through them
but we long beyond them
for what is unseen
what remains out of reach
what is kept covered

W.S. Merwin

#17. He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which
having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles
he found inaccurate and boring.

Susan Cooper

#18. If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work.

Darren Hardy

#19. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Maaza Mengiste

#20. Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

Elliott Abrams

#21. I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

Deanna Raybourn

#22. Normal is boring and safe. So, deviate from the norm because the greatest advances in humankind's history have come from people embracing their inner A. B. Normal.

Karl Pippart III

#23. At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Alison Weir

#24. If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Thomas Secker

#25. She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history
boring boring boring.

Frank Beddor

#26. We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

Gail Collins

#27. History would be boring without conquerors, bloodthirsty warlords and saviors.

Miltiades Varvounis

#28. Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

Robert Harris

#29. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion