British Academy/presidents of The British Academy 1902%e2%80%93present

Famous quotes containing the words british, academy and/or presidents:

    “Quite frankly, if you bed people of belowstairs class, they go to the papers.”
    —Jane Clark, British millionaire politician’s wife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1994)

    “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)