Famous quotes containing the words british and/or prisoners:
“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)
“We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought for the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)