Quotes On Britishness

#1. The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

Estelle

#2. What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Richard Flanagan

#3. Leave Dad alone" I told Aislinn. "His Britishness is sort-circuiting.

Rachel Hawkins

#4. I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

Neal Ascherson

#5. Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Vivienne Westwood

#6. I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

Naomie Harris

#7. I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

David Blunkett

#8. (But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)

Virginia Woolf

#9. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

Michael Chabon

#11. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. If we have the sense to give (broadcasting) freedom and intelligent direction, if we save it from exploitation by vested interests of money or power, its influence may even redress the balance in favour of the individual.

Hilda Matheson

#13. The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

Chelsea Handler

#14. Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.
'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.

Evelyn Waugh

#15. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Alexandra Robbins

#16. England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.

Melanie Brown

#17. If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

Myrtle Reed

#18. We've always been privileged, you see. Privilege just means 'private law.' That's exactly what it means.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Sigourney Weaver

#20. Even from a distance, she had a sort of glow around her, the glow of the sort of girl who would never talk to Percy. Who would usually look right through him. But there she was, looking.

H.L. Burke

#21. I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

Katy B

#22. People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Bill Buford

#23. I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter.

Katharine Hepburn

#24. Faith is like the freshness of dewdrops.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle