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
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
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
I viewed the morning, with much alarm. British Museum, had lost its charm. — Beegie Adair 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
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
“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
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment - an epiphany, I guess - that I just… — Sarah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The opulence of Bedford Square and the British Museum may be only a few hundred yards away, but New Oxford Street runs… — Michel Faber 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
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
“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 '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
“Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library.… — Neil Gaiman 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said… — Oliver Sacks 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
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
“My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“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
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
![“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 of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the…” quote by Jim Al-Khalili](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/342/jim-al-khalili-25557_british-museum_many-historians-regard-him-offa-as-the-m_413618.jpg)
![“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the…” quote by William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/21d/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_beautiful_it-seems-to-me-one-cannot-sit-down-in-th_291707.jpg)
