British Quotes - Page 38

• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sea, People, Soldier

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

  Clare Short

  Country, Depressing, Politics

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• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  George Seaton

  Country, Imagination, Wonderful

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• Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, Animal, Intelligent

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• We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

  Tony Blair

  Action, Extremist, Knows

  PM's Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

  Christopher Eccleston

  Encouragement, Years, Thankfulness

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

  Tim Henman

  Player, Russia, Europe

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• We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

  Kevin Watkins

  Support, Needs, Levels

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• The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

  Cameron Diaz

  Popcorn, England, Passing

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• To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Winning, Cycling, Years

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• In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

  David Starkey

  Religious, Mean, Church

  "What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.

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• It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

  Christopher Bailey

  Unique, Two, Different

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• The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Inspiring, British Rule In India, Nails

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• You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Bird, Mexico

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• The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

  John Hancock

  Names, Ministry, Rewards

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Future, Space

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• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

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• People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found out that Tony Hayward was on his yacht, he was so angry, he missed a putt.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, People, Upset

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• I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

  John Varvatos

  Bird, Band, Zeppelins

  "Hot Tracks: John Varvatos". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. October 2013.

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• Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

  Will Rogers

  Clothes, Office, Tree

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Photography, Fashion, Art

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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