Quotes 21 till 40 of 55.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
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It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Wit and Wisdom -
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
PENN Address (2004) -
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.
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Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere.
Introduction to his World War II performances. -
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
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The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
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