511 Quotes About British

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we've just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.

At some distance down the corridor it seemed suddenly as if somebody started to beat on a bass drum.He listened to it for a few seconds and realized that it was just his heart beating.He listened for a few seconds more and realized that it wasn’t his heart beating, it was somebody down the corridor beating on a bass drum.

Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.

She looked up at me with a small smile. That damn smile that now really had my breath caught in my throat. Bloody hell, this girl was going to be trouble.

Bloody Hell.Why did she still have to smell so good?If sunshine had a smell, this was it.

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man; thus, in a symbolic language universally understood, seeking (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)’ Humbly to expressA penitential loneliness.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.