A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies.
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Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift'.. They say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'
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It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole.. The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Written as a reaction to the high casualty rates of the British Expeditionary Force at Mons and Le Cateau
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The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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.. Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.
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American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm
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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le
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Enough scraps and rocks and countries are conveniently distributed across the face of the earth so that the sun still always shines on something British.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense.. I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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