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Craig Brown has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But…
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Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as…
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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket,…
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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a…
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The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to…
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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way…
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For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.
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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
— Annie Besant
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
— Alistair Cooke
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Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
— George III
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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!
— William Wordsworth
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Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
— Jo Durie
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear…
— William Ernest Henley
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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
— Craig Brown
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