Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

The Regulars are coming out!

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new geopolitical place. But in the Middle East and the Gulf, you can find German, French and British goods everywhere. German relations to these states are very good, as are English and French relations. Does this make them Arab-oriented?

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

According to them, everyone wants to be English. Being English is the best thing in the world. (Far behind, the second best thing is being God himself.)

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

As a British person living in the USA, I keep a low profile on Independence Day, July 4th.

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

Ah. And then you kill him." "No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science. {Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon and Yorkshire) is that the first Britons, whoever they were and however they came, arrived from elsewhere. The land (Britain) was once utterly uninhibited. Then people came.

Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.