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

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

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 the nothing people write about a nothing.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

This is what seems to me the grave, perhaps the gravest, evil of our time. For history is always somewhat false, and by its falsehood always somewhat warps judgment; but history written on the basis of deliberate falsehood and of repeated and prolonged suppression would be another matter altogether. It would not be history at all.
Now history is the memory of the race; and a man without memory is no longer a man.

History has no meaning.

History is the world’s most egotistical gossip.

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. “Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.