History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

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

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

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.

- What will History say?
- History, sir, will lie. As always.

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 repeats the old conceits

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

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

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