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- Bob Simpson (journalist) (1944–2006), foreign correspondent for the BBC
- Robert Simpson (composer) (1921–1997), English composer
- Robert Simpson (UK politician) (1923–1997), Northern Irish politician
- Robert Winthrop Simpson (1799–1877), rear-admiral of the Chilean Navy
- Robert Simpson (cricketer) (born 1962), English cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word british:
“History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.”
—Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)