Famous quotes containing the words british, library and/or board:
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
She simpers into the tribal library and reads
That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsburys is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)