British Quotes

Earnestness makes British people gag.

— Pamela Druckerman

The British are so funny.

— Rose Byrne

I very much consider myself British.

— Ainsley Harriott

I don't have a good British accent.

— Serena Williams

The British people are the boss.

— Tony Blair

British teams bring me good luck.

— Andrea Pirlo

“THE British foreign minister,”

— Laurent Binet

I like British guys.

— Ashley Roberts

“I grinned. "I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.”

— David Stuart Davies

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

— Rod Stewart

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

— Ian Jack

British people do not like being bossed around.

— John Redwood

Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

— Perdita Weeks

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

— Salman Rushdie

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

— Lee Wulff

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel…

— Stephen Rodrick

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

— Joss Whedon

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

— David Miliband

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that…

— Noel Clarke

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

I think that the anti-Semitic problem in the British Muslim community is worse than among the community at large.

— Mehdi Hasan

One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical…

— Marcy Kaptur

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…

— Osbert Sitwell

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that…

— Connie Chung

A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right…

— Jay Leno

Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody…

— Victoria Wood

I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The…

— Ryan Cartwright

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the…

— Al Alvarez

Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if…

— Charlie Higson

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians…

— Simon Hoggart

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more…

— Peter Hilton

Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…

— Brendan I. Koerner

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of…

— Michael Hastings

The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We…

— Jim Wallis