British Library Kharosthi

Famous quotes containing the words british library, british and/or library:

    “The great British Library—an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or “pure English, undefiled” wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”
    —Washington Irving (1783–1859)

    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)