#british

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. ↗

— Antony Sher

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I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. ↗

— John Major

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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life. ↗

— Devon Aoki

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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#british #enlightenment #half #off #own

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home. ↗

— Gary Glitter

#come #done #home #i #living

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ↗

— Philip Green

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It was part of your religion to hate the British. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#hate #part #religion #your

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#death #death

I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge—or should I say gnosis?—of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had disappointingly failed to impart to me, leaving me with that deep sense of emptiness begotten by hemimathy; the time was finally ripe for me to be transported by the velvety feel of the unvoiced palato-alveolar fricative, the élan of the unpronounceable and masochistically hedonistic front open-rounded vowel, and, last but not least, the (admittedly short) ejaculatory quality of the voiced velar stop: all three of them combined together to form that miraculous lexical item, the word shag. ↗

— Spiros Doikas

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