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British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
British people have a really sophisticated sense of humour, because we're exposed to much more than Europeans and Americans, not least in our literary heritage.
I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.
I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.
British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition.
I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.
I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
I'm a British psychological illusionist, which is a term I made up, but I do these kind of mind-reading and psychological experiments. There's nothing magical about it at all.
The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.
If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think the Americans have it right.
There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.
I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.
When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.
The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.
I've been a fan of Lara Croft. She's gorgeous. She's sexy. She's iconic. She's British.
I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
I have to audition for everything; there is no Mrs. Robbie Williams free pass, and because I'm working with British actors everyone is so polite - no one mentions Robbie.
I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
It is a British legacy that we have such a strict hierarchy that we can't even write a letter to our PM.
Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a policy of boycott and non-cooperation.
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
Our aerospace industry is a British success story which relies on Airbus - a collaboration with other E.U. countries.
The British people overwhelmingly favour big businesses and the wealthiest individuals contributing their fair share so we can invest in our schools, hospitals and services.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
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