All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a …

- C. V. Wedgwood

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it…

- C. V. Wedgwood

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

- C. V. Wedgwood

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the b…

- C. V. Wedgwood

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we …

- C. V. Wedgwood

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

- C. V. Wedgwood

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

- C. V. Wedgwood

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

- C. V. Wedgwood

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

- C. V. Wedgwood