#tish

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#british #british museum #family #i #looking

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#each #except #isles #laughing #own

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arrived #british #england #father #found

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bit #british #british empire #did #empire

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#british people #hungarian #i #i do #people

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#american #between #british #cars #childhood

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#british #british government #brought #determined #down

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fits #know #morality #periodical #public

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#british #british actors #i #snobby #some