The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.

-Schlesinger, Arthur Meier
  'TheAmerican Revolution Reconsidered', in Political Science Quarterly, Mar.

Your friend the British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Gen Burgoyne to Major Swindon.The Devil's Disciple, act 3.

The British Bourgeosie Is not born And does not die, But, if it is ill, It has a frightened look in its eyes.

-Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert
At the House of Mrs Kinfoot.

[Margaret Thatcher] has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.

-Steel, David Martin Scott Steel, Baron
  In Time, 28 Apr.

To-day I find from my observations of the sun†that I am now camped in the centre of Australia. I have marked a tree and planted the British flag there. There is a high mount about two miles and a half to the north-north- east.Iwish it had been inthe centre; but on itto-morrow I will raise a cone of stones, and plant the flag there, and name it 'Central Mount Stuart'.

-Stuart,John McDouall
  Journalentry, 22 Apr. Onreaching the centre of Australia, at Small Gum Creek. Collected inW. Hardman (ed) Journals ofJohn McDou'all Stuart during theYears1858,1859,1860,1861and1862.

Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We know thee most, we love thee best, For art thou not of British blood?

-Tennyson
  'Hands all Round', stanza 4, l.37^40.

Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.13, stanza 2, l.464^5.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British Government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

-Tuchman, BarbaraW(ertheim)
  The Guns of August, ch.9.

The Britishhad nowayof knowing it, butthe candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the state. So it goes.

-Vonnegut, Kurt,Jr
  Slaughterhouse-Five, ch.5.

For generations the British bourgeoisie have spoken of themselves as gentlemen, and by that they have meant, among other things, a self-respecting scorn of irregular perquisites. It is the quality that distinguishes the gentleman from both the artist and the aristocrat.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.6.

The story of Colonel Chapman's adventures is typical of the British way of war, and therefore begins with a complete lack of preparation.

-Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl
  Quoted in foreword to F Spencer ChapmanTheJungle is Neutral (1950).

How anyone can fear that the British electorate, whatever mistakesitcanmake or maycondone, canever go too far or too fast is incomprehensible† The Labour Party, when in due course it comes to be entrusted with power, will naturally not want to do everything at once. Once we facethenecessityof putting our principles into execution from one end of the kingdom to the other, the inevitabilityof gradualness cannot failtobe appreciated.

-Webb, SidneyJames
  Labour Party Conference, 26 Jun.

The British are coming.

-Welland, Colin
  At theAcademyAward ceremony in Los Angeles, 29 Mar.

The British Civil Service†is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

-Baroness
  Speech at the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 11 Feb.

A rather bitter Britishmusicianonceremarked sourly toa friend of mine: 'Oh, all she knows about music she learned in bed with musicians.' To that, I can only add, what better place to learn?

-Wilmer,Val(erie)
  Mama SaidThere'd Be Days LikeThis, ch.3.