British Academy/presidents of The British Academy 1902-present

Famous quotes containing the words british, academy and/or presidents:

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

    “...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)

    “Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)