British Museum Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

• We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea
• 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 in… — Fred Reed
• When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington
• If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev
• The biggest looters are the British Museum. — Lowkey
• 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 to… — Daniel Hannan
• 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… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here… — Errol Flynn
• 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 better… — Audrey Niffenegger
• I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan
• I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total… — Rick Riordan
• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was… — Adam Savage
• It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is… — Neil MacGregor
• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor
• A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is… — Neil MacGregor
• The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free… — Neil MacGregor
• I viewed the morning, with much alarm. British Museum, had lost its charm. — Beegie Adair

Who Wrote These British Museum Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 19 British Museum Quotes as follows:

• 4 British Museum Quotes by Neil MacGregor
• 2 British Museum Quotes by Arthur Eddington
• 2 British Museum Quotes by Rick Riordan
• 1 British Museum Quote by Fred Reed
• 1 British Museum Quote by C S Forester
• 1 British Museum Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1 British Museum Quote by Lowkey
• 1 British Museum Quote by Daniel Hannan
• 1 British Museum Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1 British Museum Quote by Errol Flynn
• 1 British Museum Quote by Audrey Niffenegger
• 1 British Museum Quote by Adam Savage
• 1 British Museum Quote by Beegie Adair
• 1 British Museum Quote by Nicholas Lea