British Quote by Anthony Burgess Download Open image ““We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”” — Anthony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare British Built Feet Funny Historical Hurt Hurt Feet Needs Roads Hurt Shoes Shoes British Wear Shoes
“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.” — Stebby Julionatan Copy Share Image
“Shoes are funny beasts. You think they’re just clothes, but really, they’re alive. They want things. Fancy ones with gems want to go to… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Shoes really did lead the perfect life. They were polished and taken care of and not expected to do anything more painful than occasionally… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And if I forget… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt. — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image