British Quote by John Hancock

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

— John Hancock

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

— Anonymous

So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Equally arresting are British pub names. Other people are content to dub their drinking establishment with pedestrian names like Harry’s Bar and the Greenwood…

— Bill Bryson

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle…

— Guy Debord

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

— Guy Debord

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

— Michael Heseltine

Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars…

— Gail Carriger

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the…

— Anthony Trollope

“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely…

— Guy Debord

I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“They don’t make spectacles for you, do they?”

— K.J. Charles