I viewed the morning, with much alarm. British Museum, had…

“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that…

— T.S. Eliot

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

— Russell Howard

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student…

— Anonymous

“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking effect, but…

— Bertrand Russell

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…

— Audrey Niffenegger

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and…

— Bertrand Russell

We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era,…

— Samuel Sharpe

“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“London was like a machine. We were all being shot backwards and forwards on this plain foundation to make some pattern. The British Museum…

— Virginia Woolf

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

“The spring equinox celebration included a dawn trip to the nearby Rillaton Barrow, a Bronze Age burial mound high up on the Cheesewring Moor,…

— Carole Carlton

“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how…

— Sharon Waxman

In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is…

— Margo Kaufman