Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

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

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

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.

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.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

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

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

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.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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

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

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].

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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