British Quotes · Page 15

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

— David Cameron

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

— Robert Vaughn

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

— John Oliver

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

— Keegan-Michael Key

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

— Ben Nicholson

“Australia was not Britain, and its law would not be just British.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

— Dan Jenkins

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

— Michael Gove

Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids…

— Mats Wilander

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

— Jimmy O. Yang

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

— Nicky Morgan

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

— Stephen King

I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out…

— Josh O'Connor

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy…

— Helen Mirren

Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a…

— Tony Robinson

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my…

— Madeleine Stowe

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the…

— Niall Ferguson

British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think…

— David Hepworth

British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The…

— Ron Gutman

I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich…

— Ziauddin Sardar

“The British are civilized. People still read and some conversations can be interesting. By contrast American are fat and stupid and so…

— Dan Fante

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power…

— Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and…

— Winston Churchill

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future…

— Paul Conroy

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO…

— Richard Perle

I don't want my staff staring at a screen, while surreptitiously checking out the view of their back garden, pretending they are…

— Touker Suleyman

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of…

— Thomas Jefferson

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .…

— Winston Churchill

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

— Bob Hope

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

— Dizzee Rascal

Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.

— Anwar al-Awlaki

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

— Matt Walsh

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

— James Dyson

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

— Charles de Gaulle

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

— Emma Roberts