History is a series of lies on which we agree.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

History is the story we tell ourselves about how the past explains our present, and how the ways in which we tell it are shaped by contemporary needs.