British Museum Quotes

British Museum Quote of the day

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

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 the British Museum.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.