Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
Tag: humor money reading education knowledge army detectives spenser britain irrelevance
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
Benjamin DisraeliTag: politics history literature britain
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
Julian BarnesTag: britain
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.
Jacques ChiracTag: britain
Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political community. Throughout British India, separate electorates had been offered to Muslims, underscoring their separateness from Hindus and sowing the seeds of communalism. Teh Morley-Minto reforms in 1908 had allowed direct election for seats and separate or communal representation for Muslims. This was the harbinger for the formation of the Muslim League in 1906. In 1940, the Muslim League, representing one-fifth of the total population of India, became a unifying force. They were resentful that they were not sufficiently represented in Congress and feared for the safety of Islam.
Prem KishoreTag: history britain india pakistan
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
Prem KishoreTag: history britain india pakistan
But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.
Vladimir NabokovTag: life reading books school britain
This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].
Todd McFarlaneTag: language england britain great-britain dolls toys
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
Ringo StarrTag: humor music america britain button ringo-starr
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
George OrwellTag: wwii nobility england britain uk orwell royalty
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