“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
“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
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan 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
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
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a… — Neil MacGregor 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
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
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot 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
[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
“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Grant slowly turned his head and got the barest glimpse before turning back. “Nope,” Grant said. “Not a tourist. He’s one of… — Boyd Morrison Copy Share Image
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