Book Quote by Anthony Trollope

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

— Lowkey

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

— Rick Riordan

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books…

— Fred Reed

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it…

— Adam Savage

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed…

— Daniel Hannan

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

— Emily Carr