Briton quotes

You probably know, the better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligentenoughto comehomeagain.Thenthey'retoo old and intelligent to want to.

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  Rates of Exchange, pt.5, ch.3.

Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Briton†to that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.

- Sir Henry Parkes
  Speech to theAustralian Federation Conference, Feb.

Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, Thackeray and my-lorded him as onlya free-born Briton can do.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Of Old Osbourne.Vanity Fair, ch.13.