Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

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.

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 grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

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

I grew up with British rock.

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

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 know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

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

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

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.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I love London, I love the British people.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.