“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.” HeartSaidBookSeemsBeautifulReadingSpeakHeavenRoomsGraceTablesGratefulRoundsBritishMuseumsReverenceSpeak The TruthBirthrightBritish MuseumBeautiful BooksReading Room Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.” WritingArtEnoughReadingLiteratureChristRealizingRoomsToo MuchHairCuresSpitArthurIndescribableLeperPlastersBlistersReading Room Author:Gustave Flaubert
“The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.” MenReadingChurchRoomsDoorsRacismServantHotelHallsConcertsReading Room Book:Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
“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.” IfsHumansSpiritReadingRoomsWonderWrittenBritishEnormousMuseumsHuman SpiritBritish MuseumReading Room Book:Civilisation Source: Civilisation