Stuffy British Quotes & Sayings

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man. — Roy Moore

Georgie Porgie puddin' and pie. Kissed the boys and made them cry. What kind of name is Georgia?"
"My great-great grandma was Georgia. The first Georgia Shepherd. My dad calls me George."
"Yeah. I've heard him. That's just nasty."
I felt my temper rise in my cheeks, and I really wanted to spit on him from where I sat atop my horse, looking down on his neatly shorn, well-shaped head. He glanced up at me and his lips twitched, making me even angrier.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not trying to be mean. But George is a terrible name for a girl. Hell, for anyone who isn't the King of England."
"I think it suits me," I huffed.
"Oh, yeah? George is the name for a man with a stuffy, British accent or a man in a white, powdered wig. You better hope it doesn't suit you."
"Well, I don't exactly need a sexy name, do I? — Amy Harmon

Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him. — Arthur W. Pink

You know
I know
you know
I'll remember you
and I know
You know
I know
you'll remember me — One Direction

I'm always a work in progress. — Billie Joe Armstrong

When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners. — Gary Chapman

There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All intimacies are based on differences. — Henry James

Success is not determined by the amount of accomplishments, but by the road traveled & how you handled the recovery of each failed attempt. — Behdad Sami

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow ... Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. — Garrison Keillor

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it? — William Shakespeare

Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life. — Howard Baker

Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him. — Tony Hawks