British Grand

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or grand:

“Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)