Citas de la monarquía británica

• I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Beautiful, Past, Thinking

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• A mí también me gustaría ver una Monarquía mucho más abierta. Antes pensaba que eran completamente inútiles y que deberíamos deshacernos de ellas. Ahora ya no pienso lo mismo. Sigo siendo ambivalente, sigo aborreciendo el sistema de clases británico, y la familia real es la cúspide del sistema de clases británico.

  Helen Mirren

  Pensamiento, Sistema de Clases, Real

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• Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, World

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

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• La monarquía es ante todo un negocio, y para ellos es importante que el público británico siga financiando los excesivos estilos de vida lujosos de la familia "real", ahora bastante enorme, derrochadora e inútil.

  Steven Morrissey

  Important, Useless, Royal

  "Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Country, Thinking, Use

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• Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.

  David Cannadine

  New York, Long, People

  David Cannadine (1998). "Historia en nuestro tiempo", Penguin Group USA

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• Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution - perhaps the first modern political institution.

  Adam Gopnik

  Hangover, Believe, Reality

  The New Yorker, September 29, 1997.

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• In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

  David Starkey

  Religious, Mean, Church

  "What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.

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• No hay ningún poder en Europa, ni siquiera el de Bonaparte, que sea tan ilimitado [como la monarquía británica].

  Charles James Fox

  Europe, Unlimited, Bonaparte

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.

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• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, Kind, Warhol

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• Creo que la visita de la Reina a Estados Unidos es una ocasión admirable para realizar un análisis histórico, veraz, sincero y genuino de cómo la Monarquía británica evolucionó hasta su situación actual.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Queens, Believe, Historical

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). "Historia en nuestro tiempo", Penguin Group USA

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• The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

  Robert Lacey

  Government, Carter, British

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