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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
The Devil's Disciple (1901) -
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
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The maxim of the British people is ''Business as usual.''
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The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
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There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
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Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231 -
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
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