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 good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
    —Martin Tupper (1810–1889)

    “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)