British Expression Quotes

#1. After repeating almost everything I said, I excused my
accent and told them that I knew I spoke like I had plums in my mouth.
I then had to explain that was a British expression, as their faces read as
though I was saying I'd had their brother-in-law's balls on my tongue.

Greg Hogben

#2. Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

Jojo Moyes

#3. I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Jason Gann

#4. Strong Women Need To Be Held Strongly.

Tia Walker

#5. If we can walk through fire, baby, we can do anything.

Kristen Ashley

#6. By every law of nature and sex a kiss was the only rejoinder that fitted the mood and the moment, under the suasion of which Sue's undemonstrative regard of him might not inconceivably have changed its temperature.

Thomas Hardy

#7. understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones

Jean Sasson

#8. She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

Elizabeth Bear

#9. Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

Francis Thompson

#10. Deadly Sins on a long, yellow legal tablet: Pride, Greed, Envy, Lechery, Gluttony, Anger, Laziness.

Jim Harrison

#11. For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.

Alexander Balmain Bruce

#12. Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

Vincent Bugliosi

#13. To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

Lady Gaga

#15. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Richard G. Scott

#16. Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

Asghar Farhadi

#17. How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

#18. I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.

Donatella Versace