British Flag Sayings

#1. 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Rose George

#2. At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

John Green

#3. Yesterday, the title

Anonymous

#4. I said what do you mean by his country? A flag someone invented two hundred years ago? The Bench of Bishops arguing about divorce and the House of Commons shouting Ya at each other across the floor? Or do you mean the T.U.C. and British Railways and the Co-op?

Graham Greene

#5. One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

Beverly Donofrio

#6. Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they're people!

Bill Maher

#7. We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.

Paulo Coelho

#8. 1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. [1]

George Eliot

#9. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Margaret Atwood

#10. It seems the British are born to hoist their flag over every nation where the sun rises and never learn their language.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It was safer to take an overseas posting with the British Expeditionary Force.

Christopher Fowler

#12. Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Tom Spanbauer

#13. In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

William Hull