#tish

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. ↗

— Kurt Student

#after #apart #arrange #british #could

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

My background is Scottish. ↗

— Melissa George

#scottish

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I'm proud to be British. ↗

— Roger Moore

#i #proud

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

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. ↗

— John Major

#british #british people #i #i think #majority

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#british #city #council #estate #every