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Letter "B" » British
«The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, British, homosexuals, KGB, secret service, staffed, the British, The Secret Service
«The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.»
Author: George Mikes
| Keywords:
biological, bore, British, British and, eminent, experiments, originally, quite a, scientists, spoiling, The Eternal
«The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.»
«The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.»
Author: Robert G. Menzies
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, British, deadly, products, respectable, rule of law
«The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.»
Author: Tony Benn
(Politician)
| Keywords:
British, House of Lords, lords, Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, retired, the British
«The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends»
«We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
British, fits, periodical, public morality, spectacle, the British
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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all ages, British, buckets, classic, collection, immense, languages, Modern Age, Modern English, obsolete, pools, repair, rill, scantiest, scanty, sequester, sequestered, swell, their own language, The Modern Age, undefiled, volumes, wherewith
«To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
British, British and, disagree, disagree with, fourths, requisites, sanity, the British, three-fourths
«The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
British, British people, the British
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