Quotes of: Bulldog Keyword

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

Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.

Life

Sporty Lewis: Is that a ghost I'm seeing? An apparition? Or is it James J. Braddock the Bulldog of Burgen? Jim Braddock: Sporty Lewis, how ya doing?

Cinderella Man

Herb Brooks: How about you? Mark Pavelich: Mark Pavelich. Herb Brooks: Who do you play for? Mark Pavelich: UMD Bulldogs.

Miracle

[Bond is gifted the porcelain bulldog] Eve: I think she was encouraging you to take a desk job. James Bond: Just the opposite.

Skyfall

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’ In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

British Bulldog

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel. 

British Bulldog

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

British Bulldog

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

A Man for All Seasons

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true. 

British Bulldog

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water. 

British Bulldog

[Bond stares at the porcelain bulldog statue on M's desk] James Bond: The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives. M: Your interior decorating tips have always been appreciated, 007.

Skyfall

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes