Famous quotes containing the words british and/or alliance:
“However British you may be, I am more British still.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)