British Quotes · Page 20

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

— Timothy Garton Ash

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.

— Saara Aalto

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

— Linda Colley

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

— Kenneth Clarke

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

— Mike Myers

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them,…

— Amos Oz

I like to feel comfortable. I love British brands, and I enjoy dressing in a way that makes me feel good.

— Suki Waterhouse

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over…

— Rich Fulcher

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He…

— Tori Amos

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the…

— Rachel Whiteread

There is a clear political desire to rebalance the British economy away from London towards the regions, and away from the services…

— Rishi Sunak

The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked…

— Friedrich Engels

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification…

— Martin McGuinness

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . .…

— Michael O'Leary

“I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try…

— Ben Aaronovitch

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may…

— Simon Schama

Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply.…

— Linda Colley

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to…

— Neal Stephenson

If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with…

— Christopher Titus

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn.…

— Rory Bremner

Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the…

— Anne Royall

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who…

— Lyndon LaRouche

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the…

— Winston Churchill

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

— Brenda Fricker

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

— Carolina Herrera

'Strictly' is so loved by the British public, I have always been a massive fan.

— Shirley Ballas

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

— William Randolph Hearst

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

— Tim Harford

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic…

— Charley Reese

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

— Stephen Fry

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

— Emma Thompson

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

— Luke Ford

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

— Ioan Gruffudd

British boxing fans are amazing, and the O2 is one of the best venues in the world.

— Paulie Malignaggi

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without…

— Clement Attlee

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

— Alexander Woollcott

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

— Roger Moore

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

— Noel Edmonds

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee