The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I viewed the morning, with much alarm. British Museum, had lost its charm. — Beegie Adair Copy Share Image
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
“The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“That of the British Museum Reading-room,’ explained Jasper; ‘known to some of us as the valley of the shadow of books. People… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“In the "British Museum Papyrus" of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, parts of which may date to 7,000 years ago,3 the… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
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… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“What the Acropolis in Athens looked like, including the Parthenon of the gods, is best told today at the British Museum in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The magicians of the Golden Dawn built a history that now appears inaccurate but was cutting edge for its time. They haunted… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“London was like a machine. We were all being shot backwards and forwards on this plain foundation to make some pattern. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Ah, but thinking became morbid, sentimental, directly one began conjuring up doctors, dead bodies; a little glow of pleasure, a sort of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Gor," she breathed when she picked up the nearly empty tureen. "Someone done eat the soup!" "Never!" Angus said, his eyes as… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“One of the special delights of my childhood was to go and see the cases of illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer.… — Herbert Copy Share Image
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