Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

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

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

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

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

I love London, I love the British people.

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

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

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

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

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

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

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

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

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 quite a fan of British designers.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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.

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

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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