British Blue

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or blue:

    Gorgonised me from head to foot,
    With a stony British stare.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    ...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...
    John le Carré (b. 1931)