British Quote by Kenneth Clark

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

— Bonnie Hammer

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

— Jeffrey Tambor

“That of the British Museum Reading-room,’ explained Jasper; ‘known to some of us as the valley of the shadow of books. People who often…

— George Gissing

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

“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the…

— Richard Rodriguez

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue…

— C. S. Forester

Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a…

— Kenneth Clark

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to…

— Benjamin Franklin

“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones.…

— Roald Dahl

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

— Johnny Cash

“...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a…

— Peter of Celle

“Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to…

— Will Leitch