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«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
«You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! the British journalist But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to»
Author: Humbert Wolfe
| Keywords:
bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, British, British and, journalist, occasion, the British, twist
«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»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Grammar
| Keywords:
advertising copy, American Magazine, British, British and, charm, condom, condoms, copy, goddam, grammar, grammars, magazine, proper, rib, ribbed, scruffy, The Magazine
«I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
British, British and
«ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No 1 task is to move from inter-dependence -- which can be good or bad -- to an integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most importantly, shared values. . . . The only way we can live together is if we say the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
American values, British, British and, celebration, celebrations, dependence, differences, global, importantly, integrate, integrated, integrates, inter, interred, most importantly, No 1, responsibilities, shared, some other, The Celebration
«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
«I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
bones, British, British and, sentence structure, structure
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