British Museum Quotes
19 quotes by 14 authors
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We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
— Nicholas Lea
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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
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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
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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
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
— Arthur Eddington
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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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The biggest looters are the British Museum.
— Lowkey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
— Rick Riordan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: