Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

The British have always made terrible parents.