Thomas More

Naissance 1478 · Décès 1535

Originaire de London, England, United Kingdom · Nationalité : Kingdom of England · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Citations

“For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.”
Richard III and His Miserable End 1543En anglais
“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”
On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England 185En anglais
“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.”
Utopia, Chapter 6En anglais
“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”
Attributed in Lives That Made a Difference: An RSME Book for Schools 2011 by PEn anglais

Les livres de Thomas More dans l'ordre

Les livres de Thomas More dans l'ordre de parution, de La Description De L'isle d'Utopie (1518) à Dialogue Concerning Heresies (2006).