Let us remember, there is a people, who share the government and name of Britons among whom the cruelty of Sparta is renewed without its virtue.
Quotes about britons (16 Quotes)
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
The Roman Conquest was, however, a Good Thing, since the Britons were only natives at the time.
TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.
Over the 12 years between the end of the French and Indian War and the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord, the colonists clarified their beliefs and articulated them in language that was meant to build a broad base of support for opposition to the authority of the king, ... It took nothing less than a year of civil war to convince most colonists that they were in fact not Britons, but Americans.
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
I've always loved woman. Blonde, brunette, but preferably foreign. They're more attractive than Britons.
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Blair's policies will bring more destruction to Britons after the London explosions,
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.