#tish

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bosnian #british #british press #had #i

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. ↗

— Eileen Atkins

#american #american accent #around #bad #british

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ↗

— Alexander Berkman

#blind obedience #brutish #callousness #destruction #irresponsible

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#eye #fetish #i #just #patches

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#been #boast #british #cornwall #favorite

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement. ↗

— Vince Cable

#become #been #bit #british #business

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. ↗

— James Callaghan

#citizen #either #injustice #ireland #irish

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#arts #british #council #give #how