“The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with ...” — Niall Ferguson Quote

“The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.”

“As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.”

“The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.”

“There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.”

“Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors.”

“Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.”