Britiash Quotes & Sayings

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together. — Menachem Begin

I have. You. For Life. Bonded. Not Bonded. Fuck the details. I just want to be with you, Clare. — Elizabeth Morgan

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies — John Cleese

...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever. — Anna Quindlen

If I couldn't sleep, I could read. — Gail Carson Levine

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress. — Christian Dior

Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in terms of external, audible sounds, but in terms of the swiftness and power of its inner flow. Then, like the rolling mass of a river's current, which by its very movement polishes the stones of the bottom and turns the wheels of mills, flowing speech itself, by the force of its own laws, on its way, in passing, creates meter and rhyme and thousands of other forms and constructions, still more important, but as yet unrecognized, unconsidered, unnamed. — Boris Pasternak

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing. — Suzanne Collins

These are Scottish lassies. They'll have been brought up to believe that Englishmen have long tails and cloven hooves."
"I'll be happy to prove there's no tail on this Sassenach," John said, grinning.
"Ah, but if they see you without breeches they'll know the other wee rumor about Sassenach men is true. They'd certain not have you then. — Lecia Cornwall

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts. — Betsy Beers

A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture? — Anno Nomius

Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would have to believe that imprisoning the innocent and torturing suspects was justified if the Home Secretary thought it a good thing for our peace of mind. — William Donaldson

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust. — Bill Parcells

North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.' — Stephen Colbert

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this. — C.S. Lewis

Society was ruled by narrow-minded, profoundly incurious people, predatory business men, dull squires, bishops, politicians who could quote Horace but had never heard of algebra. Science was faintly disreputable and religious belief obligatory. Traditionalism, stupidity, snobbishness, patriotism, superstition and love of war seemed to be all on the same side; there was need of someone who could state the opposite point of view. — George Orwell