Briton Quotes

#1. The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Malcolm Bradbury

#2. realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I

E.R. Braithwaite

#3. Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant

#4. Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

George III

#5. St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

Winston S. Churchill

#6. Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns

#7. A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

William Wordsworth

#8. When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much - sometimes ten times as much - as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

T.R. Reid

#9. The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

Jo Durie

#10. You do like them thin, don't you?" Pyrlig said, amused. "Now I like them meaty as well-fed heifers! Give me a nice dark Briton with hips like a pair of ale barrels and I'm a happy priest. Poor Hild. Thin as a ray of sunlight, she is, but I pity a Dane who crosses her path today.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

Craig Brown

#12. It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

Herman Melville

#13. To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.

William Ernest Henley

#14. Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.

Richard Blake

#16. You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

Rudyard Kipling

#17. My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

Maajid Nawaz

#18. I don't know exactly what the Xanax did to me. All I can remember is how relaxed and not-uptight I felt. I did not care about anything. Everything was nice, very nice.

Andrew Smith

#19. Sleepless nights?

Either you are in love or you are on a mission. For some.... it's the same.

Shikha Kaul

#20. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

Andrew Carnegie

#21. The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

Leonard Nimoy

#22. I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

Wendy Ewald

#23. I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

Amanda Hearst

#24. I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.

Geraldine Brooks

#25. It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#26. [Homeschooling] ... recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Raymond S. Moore

#27. Time cures all, I thought, except the truth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon