#british

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#because #british #enjoy #i #rule

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#did #fact #i #know #people

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british #british empire #china #crimes #destruction

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#between #british #community #crisis #forward

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#i #intelligent #thought #very #were

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world. ↗

— David Walliams

#british #cohen #comedian #most #otherwise

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#british #captured #controlling #dominated #europe

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards