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“There was something indomitable about Maria like Britannia. Hed heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterw...”
“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 ...”
“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthand yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploi...”
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. Th...”
“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”
“I 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...”
“But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.”
“Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.”
“I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.”
“The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking...”
“All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon and Yorkshire) is that the first Britons, whoever they were and however they came, arrived from elsewhere. The land (Brit...”
“It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle you...”
“I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.”
“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.”
“Britain wouldnt have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five y...”
“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.”
“And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) Its the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. Theyve got the usual So...”
“Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.”
“But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old and making it news; and used, too, to taking the new and making it old. Every glass of water from ...”
