It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere. — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
As far as filming for TV goes, I like to go where the food is definitely of interest to British people. — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what a treasure 'The Great British Bake Off' was, so I just thought, 'oh it'll be fun to… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
My first movie that came out - 'Shopping,' a British movie starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost - there were certain journalists… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I mean, props to Paris Hilton because she's doing it really well and for someone that's such a wealthy heiress she doesn't… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy. — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British. — Laurel Van Ness Copy Share Image
The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up. — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth. — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes. — Richard Baker Copy Share Image
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to… — William Hague Copy Share Image
There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not! — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
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