British Quotes - Page 22

• Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

  John Milton

  Mean, Law, Bars

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.345, Pearson Education

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• No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Years, Judgement, Lasts

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• There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

  Charles James Fox

  Europe, British Monarchy, Unlimited

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Swimming, Sea

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

  Kerry Packer

  Guy, One Day, Saws

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• The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Judging, World, Active

  The Daily Telegraph, May 17, 1986.

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• The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

  George VI

  Ideas, Unity, Together

  1927 Opening, as Duke of York, the first Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.

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• I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

  Julian Assange

  Political, Asylums, Return

  "Mayawati controversy: Text of Julian Assange's statement". www.thehindu.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Hands, Government, Tools

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Lying, Party

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover”, p.17

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Reflection, Knights

  'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  Andre Maurois

  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Kids, Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

  Mae West

  Bed, Able, Lasts

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• I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

  Tony Blair

  Party, People, Leader

  Tony Blair's Speech to the Labour Party Conference, news.bbc.co.uk. September 28, 1999.

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• As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.

  John A. Macdonald

  Mean, People, Effort

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• It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Practice, Faces, Kind

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• British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Law, Approach, Rule Of Law

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• Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Intellectual, Feminism

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

  Tony Benn

  Empires, Britain, Colony

  Tony Benn's Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, October 2, 1972.

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Gold, Facts

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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• Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

  John Lahr

  Coward, Momentum, Exhilaration

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