Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

British women can't cook.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

British teams bring me good luck.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

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

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

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I am Scottish. I am also British.

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

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?

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

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

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

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

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