British
The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.
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Famous quotes containing the word british:
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Its simple: either you have discipline or you havent.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently its your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)