British Nationality Status

Famous quotes containing the words british, nationality and/or status:

    We may be scum, but at least we’re la crème de la scum.
    —Report on the British royal family. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Nov. 13, 1988)

    If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

    The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)