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Letter "B" » British
«Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't»
«I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood].»
«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.»
Author: William G. Golding
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Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
antique,
antiques,
association,
British,
British people,
historical,
quantity,
refer,
the British,
with sympathy
«I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.»
«If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.»
«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
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Writer)
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About:
America and Americans,
Grammar
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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»
«It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.»
«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»
«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»