Affair Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— M. E. W. Sherwood

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

— Karen Essex

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective.…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Anonymous

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but…

— Orhan Pamuk

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

— John Burroughs

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

— Brad Pitt

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was…

— Agatha Christie

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

— Ann Brashares

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare