#british

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#dreaming #mystery #real #dreams

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#beginning #bombing #british #close #crime

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. ↗

— John le Carre

#british press #depths #go #go to hell #hell

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#ball #british #british open #go #had

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. ↗

— David Cameron

#british people #drivers #i #know #passengers

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#british #countries #created #event #jewish

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#audience #best-seller #books #brazil #british

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. ↗

— George Vancouver

#british #capturing #declaration #martinez #robbing