British Quote by Felipe Anderson

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it…

— Neil MacGregor

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

— Russell Howard

I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by…

— David Olusoga

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a…

— J. B. Priestley

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger…

— Neil MacGregor

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…

— Rick Riordan

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum…

— 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

Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story…

— Neil MacGregor

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 remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment - an epiphany, I guess - that I just had to…

— Sarah Goldberg