British Nationality Status

Famous quotes containing the words british, nationality and/or status:

    “I know an Englishman,
    Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
    —George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)

    “Rarely do American parents deliberately teach their children to hate members of another racial, religious, or nationality group. Many parents, however, communicate the prevailing racial attitudes to their children in subtle and sometimes unconscious ways.”
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark (20th century)

    “As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)