British museum Quote by Michel Faber

“We live in forgotten Victorian knife-plunging Manchester, where everything lies wherever it was left over one hundred years ago. The safe streets are dimly…

— Morrissey

“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under…

— Helene Hanff

“Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn…

— Neil Gaiman

“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less…

— Louis Bayard

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you…

— Mark Haddon

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect,…

— Oscar Wilde

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said…

— Helene Hanff

“How vast is my London! How strange my native place!”

— Emma Richler

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London.”

— Benedict Jacka

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young…

— Evelyn Waugh