#british

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#british #french #friends #good #resist

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

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych. ↗

— Brian Cox

#both #british #i #i can #i think

Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years. ↗

— Evan Davis

#back #british #challenges #cherish #comes

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#british #classify #else #everybody #everybody else

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#been #british #constitution #puzzling #will

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#bit #brilliant #britain #british #compare

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

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#british government #come #decision #distressing #ever