British Book Award

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

    “The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
    —Robert Morley (1908–1992)

    “The passion to condense from book to book
    Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
    Though we know well that when this fix the head,
    The mind’s immortal, but the man is dead.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

    “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)