His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is apt to think the wearer of the face incapable of any sort of feeling; the kind of face which, if it has any expression at all, expresses principally the resolution to go through the world decorously, without intruding upon or annoying anyone.
Edward Lucas WhiteTags: face british british-expression
Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.
Catherine TateTags: humor british comedian catherine-tate lauren-cooper
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
Shashi TharoorI can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm.
"Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!"
She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?"
"Only one, Mistress," I say
Tags: humor pirates british bloody-jack
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
Anne RiceTags: language british lestat-de-lioncourt
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
David MazzucchelliTags: america usa slavery taxes founding-fathers revolutionaries british founders
Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist." Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien
Eric IdleTags: travel australia british
I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse
Upon the Kennet and Avon Council,
May they wander the land for ever,
Never sleep twice in the same bed,
Never drink water from the same well,
And never cross the same river twice in a year.
He who steps in my blood, may it stick to them
Like hot oil. May it scorch them for life,
And may the heat dry up their souls,
And may they be filled with the melancholy
Wine won't shift. And all their newborn babies
Be born mangled, with the same marks,
The same wounds of their fathers.
Any uniform which brushes a single leaf of this wood
Is cursed, and he who wears it this St George's Day,
May he not see the next.
Tags: curse malediction british vengeance
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
Kevin HearneI once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
John le CarréTags: morality britain british
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