British Quotes · Page 12

You are part of our Great British family.

— Boris Johnson

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

— Tony Abbott

“There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...”

— Charles Finch

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

— Claire Forlani

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

— Nicole Richie

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

— Naveen Andrews

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

— Miriam Margolyes

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are managers out there who have not won a single trophy in British football.

— Martin O'Neill

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

— John Eisenhower

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

— Lee Trevino

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

— Tom Allen

Sometimes people say to me, 'Ah, you're not really Spanish; you're British.'

— Cesar Azpilicueta

You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.

— Kate Garraway

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

— John Oliver

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream…

— Oswald Mosley

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yeah I feel like British wrestling deserves a bigger chance and everyone will see that when it's on the WWE Network. People…

— Pete Dunne

It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for…

— George Galloway

So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this…

— Manfred Rommel

It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through.…

— Vera Lynn

As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see…

— Orlando Bloom

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to…

— Philip Green

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party…

— Noreena Hertz

I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that…

— Arthur Penn

If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant…

— Sally Rooney

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.…

— Nick Clegg

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House…

— Margaret Thatcher

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.…

— Louis de Bernieres

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

Being British, you see a lot of Australian movies and TV shows.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

— David Mamet

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

— Hugh Casson

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

— Victoria Beckham

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Martin Schulz

I think the 'Great British Bake-Off' is great.

— John Torode

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke