English History Quotes

• Preparémonos, pues, para nuestros deberes, y comportémonos de tal modo que, si el Imperio Británico y su Commonwealth duran mil años, los hombres sigan diciendo: "Éste fue su mejor momento".

  Winston Churchill

  Guerra, Hombres, Años

  Discurso en la Cámara de los Comunes, 18 de junio de 1940

  71 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Esta bendita parcela, esta tierra, este reino, esta Inglaterra.

  William Shakespeare

  Bendito, Piedras Preciosas, Paraíso en la Tierra

  1595 Juan de Gante. Ricardo II, acto 2, sc.1, l.40-50.

  17 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Este trono real de reyes, esta isla de cetro, Esta tierra de majestad, este asiento de Marte, Este otro Edén, demi-Paraíso.

  William Shakespeare

  Reyes, Piedras Preciosas, Paraíso en la Tierra

  "Ricardo II" (1595) acto 2, esc. 1, l. 40

  19 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Taken, Men, Orange

  Doctor Albert Bushnell Hart (1909). "Épocas de la Historia Americana"

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Adventure, People, Political

  4 Copiar cita

• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Father, Hate, Men

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

  Dave Barry

  Divertido, Humorístico, Hijo

  5 Copiar cita

• English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, Class, Aristocracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Real, Confusion, Patterns

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No hay otro Parlamento como el inglés. Para el hombre ordinario, elegido para cualquier senado, desde Perisa a Perú, puede haber una cierta satisfacción en ser elegido... pero el hombre que entra en el Parlamento inglés toma su lugar en un desfile que siempre ha sido archivado desde el nacimiento de la historia inglesa... York o Lancaster, Protestante o Católico, Corte o País, Cabeza Redonda o Caballero, Whig o Tory, Liberal o Conservador, Laborista o Unionista, todos ellos encajan en ese largo desfile que ningún otro país del mundo puede mostrar.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, Long

  9 Copiar cita

• The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

  Margaret Halsey

  Attitude, Insulting, Directors

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, Somewhere Else

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

  William Butler Yeats

  Italian, Men, Land

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Pero una vez que se es tonto, siempre se es tonto, y cuanto mayor sea el poder en sus manos, más desastroso será el uso que haga de él. La mayor calamidad de la historia inglesa, la ruptura con América, podría no haber ocurrido nunca si Jorge III no hubiera sido un honesto necio.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, America, Use

  "La rama dorada: A Study in Comparative Religion". Libro de James G. Frazer, 1890.

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Cuanto más se repasa la historia inglesa, más se llega a la conclusión de que, junto al civismo y las profundas convicciones sobre los derechos individuales, los ingleses tienen un gusto natural por el desorden.

  Anna Pavlova

  Rights, Looks, Taste

  20 Copiar cita

• Acabo de oír que Paul Scholes se ha retirado, el mejor contra el que he jugado con diferencia. El jugador más técnico de la historia de Inglaterra. Leyenda.

  Joey Barton

  Player, Legends, Miles

  48 Copiar cita

• We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

  Evelyn Waugh

  England, Influence, Disaster

  'Decline and Fall' (1928) pt. 1, ch. 8

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Past, Two, Historical

  8 Copiar cita

• The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Book, Missing

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.9, Xist Publishing

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

  Kate Bush

  Country, Thinking, Too Much

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente