British Soil

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or soil:

    Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else’s house to earn money? You’re working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? You’re middle class.
    Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)

    Let none admire
    That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
    Deserve the precious bane.
    John Milton (1608–1674)