Unusual British Quotes & Sayings

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney

And then earlier than that there were the crusades. The crusades were totally fucked. Richard the Lionheart, who had the heart of a lion as well as his own. He ripped it out of the lion, and the lion was left with a bicycle pump and not much to do. — Eddie Izzard

Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream. — Jane Krakowski

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative. — Jacob Lief

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself. — Jacques Maritain

My fingers clutch the wooden edges of the podium. "My sister, Isabelle, was a woman of great passions," I say quietly at first. "Everything she did, she did full speed ahead, no brakes. When she was little, we worried about her constantly. She was always running away from boarding schools and convents and finishing school, sneaking out of windows and onto trains. I thought she was reckless and irresponsible and almost too beautiful to look at. And during the war, she used that against me. She told me that she was running off to Paris to have an affair, and I believed her. — Kristin Hannah

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care. — Bjork