British Quotes · Page 19

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

— Gary Glitter

The British public are not children who need protection from the truth.

— Gina Miller

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

— Billy Squier

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

— Tony Benn

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

— Hank Azaria

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I love supporting British companies, especially British fashion, and Ted Baker just encapsulates our heritage.

— Vick Hope

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

— Naftali Bennett

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the…

— Jackson Browne

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

— George A. Romero

I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how…

— James Blunt

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

— Colin Mochrie

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

— Martin McGuinness

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

— John Major

A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a…

— Peter Brook

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak…

— John Cleese

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just…

— Doris Lessing

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's…

— Alex Kingston

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the…

— Vince Cable

British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,…

— Nick Sagan

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with…

— James Buchan

You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view…

— Harry S. Truman

We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny…

— Winston Churchill

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each…

— Nelson Mandela

Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one…

— David McCullough

Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers…

— Charles R. Morris

The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British…

— Florence King

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British…

— David Knopfler

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with…

— Arvind Kejriwal

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

— Nancy Kress

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

— Katherine Ryan

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

— Rick Riordan

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I watch 'The Great British Bake Off' in the way I used to watch people kiss on TV in front of my…

— Katie Hopkins

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

— Rachel Maddow

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

— David Miliband