British Book Award

Famous quotes containing the words british, book and/or award:

    “The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)