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The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

—Dennis Farina

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He looks like a horse in a man costume!

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UKIP is natural party for Eastern Europeans

—Przemek Skwirczynski

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Should have taken warning it’s justPeople mourningRunning, hiding, lostYou can’t find, find a place to go, so it’sRed skies at nightRed skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh… red skies at night, red...

—Cy Curnin

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I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. “I could teach them Indian folk dances,” I offered, scrounging my mind for school dances in gaudy garments.”Well, I’m...

—Nayana Currimbhoy

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Ah. And then you kill him.””No,” Arkwright replied patiently. “We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{…}

—Rick Yancey

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A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

—Adam Lambert

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At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn’t want to go in the hole on the back nine.

—Fuzzy Zoeller

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It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

—Paloma Faith

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If you can’t tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I’m saying “hoe” or “bitch” I am actually referring to men. …That sounded bad, in someway. But at the...

—scott mcgoldrick

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full English breakfast,” which consisted of tea, orange juice, cookies, oatmeal, granola, berries, bananas, croissants, grapes, pineapples, prunes, yogurt, five kinds of cold cereal, eggs, hash browns, back bacon, sausage, smoked salmon, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans,...

—Jared Brock

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Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…

—David Mazzucchelli

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We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

—Ruth Rendell

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Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist.” Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien

—Eric Idle

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The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

—Max Aitken

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I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was...

—Spiros Doikas

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Don’t tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think...

—Antony Jay

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The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

—Clare Balding

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I’m proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

—Paloma Faith

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I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived...

—scott mcgoldrick

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His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age...

—his

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British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

—Jean-Jacques Annaud

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…But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to...

—Winston S.

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I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?

—Jarod Kintz

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The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation’s most promising talents.

—John Lahr

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Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard,...

—Thomas de

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Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world’s great diplomats, surely.

—Anne Rice

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The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had...

—Harold Nicholson

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I am very proud to be British. I’m very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

—Julie Andrews

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Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.

—Vaughn R.

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Unlike the British we are not going to express our views without the necessary investigations.

—Hamid-Reza Asefi

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This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

—Mark Gevisser

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We worked on a few things that we’ve been working on from the British Open onwards with the swing, … What we’ve done from there is incorporate a little bit more shot-making, picturing shots a...

—Stephen Ames

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Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans,...

—Amanda Palmer

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If my hip isn’t better I won’t go to the Senior British Open and that’ll be the end of the streak, … The plane ride over there will kill me.

—Dana Quigley

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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn’t. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one’s aims...

—John le Carre

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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn’t

—Stephen Leacock

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If I did take away Silverstone and a British Grand Prix, I’d be seen as a bad guy but that wouldn’t bother me.

—Bernie Ecclestone

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As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.’… The Brits don’t merely enjoy misery, they get...

—Eric Weiner

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A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington’s Adventures in Detection: 1)”Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you’ve been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?””Remember your private...

—Nina Jon

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I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

—Phoebe Stone

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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

—Douglas Adams

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Virginians, like the British, did ceremonies very well. No one ever did anything inappropriate.

—Larry Sabato

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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

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The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

—Bea Davenport

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Do your parents know you’re here?’ asked the lady at social Services. ‘No,’ I said, ‘but I want to know about children’s homes.’ I had to stand on my toes to see over the reception...

—Constance Briscoe

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The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

—Jennifer Harrison

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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of ‘Dynasty?’ No thanks!

—Sade Adu

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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

—Clement Attlee

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However British you may be, I am more British still.

—Henry James

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