#british

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#british people #coalition #doubted #election #five

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. ↗

— Tim Roth

#british #films #just #kinds #more

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home. ↗

— Gary Glitter

#come #done #home #i #living

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ↗

— Philip Green

#british #closed #could #down #home

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. ↗

— David Soul

#cease #cease to exist #exist #theatre #theatres

Personally I like the English style better. It is not quite so brittle, and the people as a rule, just wear clothes and drink drinks. There is more sense of background, as if Cheesecake Manor really existed all around and not just the part the camera sees; there are more long walks over the Downs and the characters don’t all try to behave as if they had just been tested by MGM. The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#murder-mysteries #art

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. ↗

— Robert Trout

#any #british #celebrate #celebrated #china

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#british #celebrity #fame #irony #romance

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#broadsheet #journalism #newspaper #sherlock-holmes #the-times

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#humor #satire #family