Citas del Museo Británico

• 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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• Ayer visité el Museo Británico, una visita sumamente aburrida. Ver tantas cosas a la vez es algo que aplasta a una persona, y deambulé de una sala a otra con el corazón cansado y apesadumbrado. El presente está demasiado cargado con el pasado.

  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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• Los mayores saqueadores son el Museo Británico.

  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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• Me parece que uno no puede sentarse en ese lugar [la Sala de Lectura Redonda del Museo Británico] sin un corazón lleno de agradecida reverencia. Confieso haber dado las gracias en la mesa, y haber agradecido al Cielo mi derecho de nacimiento inglés, de participar libremente de estos hermosos libros, y decir la verdad que encuentro allí.

  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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Museums, People, Blame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, 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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• [En el Museo Británico:] Era manifiestamente imposible leer todos los libros de esa enorme y lúgubre estructura, pero hice un buen intento y acumulé un fondo de información inútil garantizado para arrojar una sombra sobre cualquier mesa.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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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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• 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

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Book, Writing, Lakes

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• We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Museums, Unity

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.14

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• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

  Adam Savage

  Cutting, Museums, Feet

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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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• Para muchos, el icono del Museo Británico es la Piedra Rosetta, ese subproducto administrativo de la aventura imperial griega en África.

  Neil MacGregor

  Adventure, Museums, Icons

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• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Hannan

  Islands, Museums, Gold

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