You Think You Are British TV Series/composition

Famous quotes containing the words you think, you, british, series and/or composition:

    You think that you are Ann’s suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Despair,
    I don’t like you very well.
    You don’t suit my clothes or my cigarettes.
    Why do you locate here
    as large as a tank,
    aiming at one half of a lifetime?
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)

    At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)