Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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].

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

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.

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

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

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

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

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

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

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

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

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

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

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

The British have always made terrible parents.