“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I viewed the morning, with much alarm. British Museum, had lost its charm. — Beegie Adair 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
“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
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
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power… — Jim Al-Khalili 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
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The spring equinox celebration included a dawn trip to the nearby Rillaton Barrow, a Bronze Age burial mound high up on the… — Carole Carlton 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
In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or… — Margo Kaufman 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“they recorded a tale of creation that matches, in some parts word for word, the tale of Genesis. George Smith of the… — Zecharia Sitchin 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
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all… — Fred Reed 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
