William Kidd famous quotes

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
-- William Kidd

#History #Fickle #Generations

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
-- William Kidd

#Pirate #Lord #Persons

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
-- William Kidd

#Good Friend #Journey #Care

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.
-- William Kidd

#People #Wicked

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
-- William Kidd

#Soul #Hell #Harm

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.