A Quote by Elvis Costello

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

Elvis Costello

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Elvis Costello
British - Musician
Born: August 25, 1954

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

David Levithan

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

G. M. Trevelyan

History never repeats itself in the same way.

Ehud Barak

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

Kenneth Clark

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Terry Venables

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Demetri Martin

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, history always repeats itself, so there's probably a baby Shaq out there in a crib somewhere, sipping on a bottle, and when he gets old enough, he'll bring the post-up center back.

Tristan Thompson

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Ray Bradbury

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

Philip Sington

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