“You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?” PeopleGivingKindFormUsedTermWhiteTroubleBuddhismCoupleFitVariousBritishSexualityDrawingTemplesCoveredEroticStatuesLove MakingUptightForms Of Love Author:Frederick Lenz
“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.” ChildrenSchoolMotherEnvironmentFitConnectionsIndiaBritishIndianRemarkableFormalImperialismEnglishmenTextbooksFormal Education Book:From fear set free Source: From fear set free
“The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.” FactsSpaceCuttingFeetCenturyFitSkinsBritishSavingCollectionsMuseumsBurnedZeal18th CenturyBonfireBritish Museum Author:Adam Savage
“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.” BelieveMemoriesFitMy FavoriteBritishMythologyObsessedPlaywrightOur MemoriesPinter Author:Baron Vaughn
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.” KnowsFitMoralityBritishRidiculous Author:Thomas B. Macaulay