Britishisms Examples Quotes & Sayings

In my experience, there were two kinds of men. One type - no matter how plain or how poor he might be - is always willing to at least try his luck with an attractive girl. The other type looks upon all of those first types with envy. — Therese Anne Fowler

A reformed bitch is going to cost a fortune in stamps. — Caitlin Moran

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. — Estelle Morris

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower? — Henry Ward Beecher

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. — Edward Bond

Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence. — Carl Sagan

Besides.
Eternity was going to seem like forever.
With the crowds of smiling people smiling at me in the dark, me who spent my life cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn, I told myself, why rush anything?
I'd backslid before, I'd backslide again. Practice makes perfect.
If you could call it that.
I figured, a few more sins would help round out my resume.
This is the upside of already being eternally damned.
I figured, Hell could wait. — Chuck Palahniuk

When a hand comes down across your bottom, the sting is quickly followed by a prickling numbness. The pain vanishes and the heat generated from those slaps sends lines of electric fire through all the tissues and nerve endings, ripples of warmth that gather in a wave of sensations, a million tiny kisses that lap over your clitoris and take you to a breath-taking orgasm. That's why girls like spanking and spanking girls is a unique pleasure. — Chloe Thurlow

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude. — Robert Anton Wilson

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. — Martin Yan