#tish

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#basically #bottom #british #coming #doing

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#chance #diana #expressing #gratitude #grief

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll. ↗

— David Walliams

#britishness #cake #humour #tea #tyrannosaurus-rex

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#berkeley #british #four #italian #live

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#dialogue #get #other #people #phrase

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#british #british open #captain #effort #go

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#been #british #british government #faith #gave

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian. ↗

— George Galloway

#british #easy #email #emails #find

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#among #arms #blackest #british #depriving