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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.


Mercy Otis Warren


#british #courage #despair #every #except

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.


Stafford Cripps


#asked #british #british government #chaos #confusion

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.


Stafford Cripps


#british #british people #decide #determined #i

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.


Quentin Crisp


#british #expect #had #happiness #happy

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.


Martin Fleischmann


#american #becoming #british #else #everybody

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.


Martin Fleischmann


#been #british #hierarchical #more #much

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.


John T. Flynn


#behind #british #calls #counterpart #dangerous

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.


C. S. Forester


#books #british #british museum #catalogue #die

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.


Martin Freeman


#fifties #i #i love #influenced #jazz

I give no more paroles to British officers.


Christopher Gadsden


#give #i #more #officers