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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.


Vince Cable


#become #been #bit #british #business

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.


Neville Marriner


#arts #british #council #give #how

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.


John Cusack


#british #employing #intelligent #keep #like

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.


William Hague


#begin #british #now #over #retreat

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.


W. Somerset Maugham


#authors #british #humor #business

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.


Franz Halder


#any #benefit #bring #britain #british

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.


David McCullough


#before #british #chair #had #i

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.


David Sedaris


#books #british #guess #guilty #guilty pleasure

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.


George Bernard Shaw


#british #except #office #soldier #stand

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.


Neil Sheehan


#assume #because #been #began #british






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