British Quotes

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

My children are my whole life.

Love has many faces.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I've dated jerks, so why not geeks?

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.

As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

I don't like conflict.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.