Famous quotes containing the words british and/or rule:
“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“A right rule for a club would be,—Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)