British Museum Reading

Famous quotes containing the words british, museum and/or reading:

“When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“Always clung to by barnacles.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

“With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)