#british

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#american #british #embrace #enthusiasm #especially

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#american #becoming #british #else #everybody

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#fifties #i #i love #influenced #jazz

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#british #british people #decide #determined #i

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#british #expect #had #happiness #happy

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

#british #business #business person #chairman #entertainers

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#born #british #child #cost #country

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything! ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#accent #attracted #badly #behave #british

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#british #british columbia #chinese #columbia #few

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. ↗

— Luke Ford

#british #history #i #kind #loved