“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of… — Andy Zaltzman Copy Share Image
