#british

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. ↗

— Michael Caine

#being #best #british #drunk #playing

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#control #country #disappears #enabled #england

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#british #chinese #chinese people #enslaving #free

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. ↗

— Lord Beaverbrook

#does #hat #man #vote #wear

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#aspects #british #certain #days #deeply

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#amount #british #cannibalism #certain #i

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#both #british #cleaning #comes #conservative

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#also #america #another #being #british

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#british #case #chair #exists #film