British Book Award

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

“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)

“A book that is shut is but a block.”
—Thomas Fuller (1654–1734)

“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)