#british

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I'm proud to be British. ↗

— Roger Moore

#i #proud

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. ↗

— Tim Roth

#british #films #just #kinds #more

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#british #city #council #estate #every

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

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#british #brought #coach #correct #dialect

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#becomes #british #child #exotic #journalist

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#described #english #heard #i #i think

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. ↗

— Robert Trout

#any #british #celebrate #celebrated #china