British Quotes

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.