Quotes of: British-airways Keyword

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Josh Hartnett

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Stephen Kinzer

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

British Bulldog

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


British Bulldog

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

British Bulldog

I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’


British Bulldog

A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

British Bulldog

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

British Bulldog

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.

British Bulldog

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

British Bulldog

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

British Bulldog

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

British Bulldog

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

British Bulldog

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it.

Jaime Murray

Ah. And then you kill him." "No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

The Isle of Blood

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

My Merlin Awakening

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.

Saving Persephone

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

The Queen of the Damned

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Time for a Tiger

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.

David Miliband