British Counterpart

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or counterpart:

    “Comes from a fine family. So she tells me. Brother’s a priest, all that. But, you know, death, disaster, unfortunate investments. One day she’s a little princess, up on the hill. Next, she’s down there, working the bars for the best she can.”
    —Peter Prince, British screenwriter, and Stephen Frears. Harry (Bill Hunter)

    “The rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)