British Museum Reading

Famous quotes containing the words british museum, 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)

    “Quite frankly, if you bed people of belowstairs class, they go to the papers.”
    —Jane Clark, British millionaire politician’s wife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1994)

    “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)