Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one.  (about Ian St John)

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I don't have a good British accent.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

I grew up with British rock.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.