Britspeak Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

From Chapter 1:
"You're not a local." I paused, unsure. "Or are you?"
"Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I'm Rennie."
After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal. — Ed Lynskey

I've never been driven by box office. — Charlize Theron

Sin will take you farther than you ever expected to go; it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay, and it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay. — Kay Arthur

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. — Stella Young

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Killing demons is like peeing on yourself; everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. Annr, guard, Zearlach city. — Taylor Grace

Work is a form of nervousness. — Robert Benchley

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign. — Mohamed ElBaradei

How strange to be loved simply for who I was. — Robin Hobb

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. — Jose Marti

You know what, we're very skinny in our family. — Ashley Scott

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten