Am I not the darling of the British Museum reading room?
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Said to have been declared by Marzials while in that room; alternately reported as "Am I or am I not the darling of the Reading Room?".Theo Marzials
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.
Kenneth Clark
When we go up to the shelves in the reading-room of the British Museum, how like it is to wasps flying up and down an apricot tree that is trained against a wall, or cattle coming down to drink at a pool!
Samuel (novelist Butler
In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
Camille Paglia
In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
Virginia Woolf
Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun...George Harrison
Marzials, Theo
Masefield, John
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