On the other hand, the historian remarked, he "found in his daughter's case everything that appealed most to his character.

"The most striking feature of these experiments," a historian remarked later, "is that they are always contradictory."

These elite liked to present themselves as steady and fiscally conservative, but as the 19th-century historian of Rome Wilhelm Ihne remarked:

"No healer can cure this young man's malady," the historian remarked in a voice that might have come from the depths of time.

An historian remarked, "A Lowell's dory to a fisherman was like a hammer to a carpenter".

The American historian, Ruud van Dijk, remarked that in the later discussions, much more sincerity was attributed to Stalin than in 1952.

A historian once remarked that Britain acquired its empire in "a fit of absence of mind."

A modern historian remarked that the trial " had a strong element of the grotesque".