British Museum Quotes

• Un cuadro en un museo escucha más opiniones ridículas que cualquier otra cosa en el mundo.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Art, Museums, World

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• To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Work, Museums, Appreciate

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• If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Believe, Men, Museums

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• Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Crush, Heart, Past

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.634, e-artnow

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• When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

  Anthony Trollope

  Libro, Escritura, Hombres

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “The Landleaguers”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest looters are the British Museum.

  Lowkey

  Museums, British

  Song: Dear England

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• I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

  Kenneth Clark

  Reading, Museums, Rooms

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

  Neil MacGregor

  Museums, Liberty, Citizens

  "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.

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• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

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• I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

  Rick Riordan

  Museums, Yelling, Sound

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

  Mijaíl Gorbachov

  Museums, People, Blame

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Night, Museums

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). "Me casé con el mundo"

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• Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

  Kenneth Clark

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 1), 1969.

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• La evolución en sentido amplio es la creencia de que una nube de hidrógeno inventará espontáneamente la litografía ultravioleta extrema, interpretará El lago de los cisnes y escribirá todos los libros del Museo Británico.

  Fred Reed

  Libro, Escritura, Lagos

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• Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Book, Museums, Library

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• I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Museums, Long

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?

  Herbert

  Museums, Sound, Rooms

  Entrevista con Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. 10 de noviembre de 2008.

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• Fuimos al Museo Británico y estuve buscando a mi familia en los libros, páginas y páginas.

  Nicholas Lea

  Book, Museums, Pages

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

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• Cuando muera puede que haya uno o dos párrafos en los periódicos. Mi nombre permanecerá un espacio en el catálogo de la Sala de Lectura del Museo Británico, encabezando una larga lista de libros por los que nadie preguntará jamás.

  C. S. Forester

  Book, Reading, Space

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• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Museums, Machines

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• Si un ejército de monos se pusiera a rasguear máquinas de escribir, podrían escribir todos los libros del Museo Británico.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Adventure, Museums, Icons

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