British Quotes · Page 29

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

— Anonymous

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

— Robert Plant

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

— Frank Carson

I remember, as a kid, we would go and watch the Red Arrows, and I thought it was similar to British wrestlers…

— Neville

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

— Mahatma Gandhi

British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.

— Gareth Barry

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

— Craig Brown

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

— Ray Floyd

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

— Rishi Sunak

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to…

— Kayvan Novak

If you talk to a British officer or NCO about the strategic objectives of the end state, you'll often get a spirited…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my…

— Arthur Smith

I want to enable the Windrush generation to acquire the status that they deserve - British citizenship - quickly, at no cost,…

— Amber Rudd

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted…

— Bill Alexander

As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods…

— Theresa May

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

— Michael O'Leary

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We…

— George Osborne

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were…

— Sylvia Brownrigg

The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium…

— John Coleman

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has…

— Heinrich Harrer

When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by…

— Brian Reade

The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons…

— Noam Chomsky

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English…

— Alan Bradley

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

— John Lydon

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

— Michael Caine

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

— Jules Verne

That David Haye is a bum; that other British heavyweight Audley Harrison is a bum. Then you have the Klitschko sisters. They…

— James Toney

My goal in boxing was to be Southern Area champion, might have a shot at the British, might own my own terraced…

— Nigel Benn

There is no doubt that the European Indoors is an important event for British athletes.

— Colin Jackson

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

— Tim Roth

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

— Graham Chapman

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

— Claire Forlani

You can tell I'm a very, very British person, but I've kept my roots quite strong. I still speak Farsi.

— Omid Djalili

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

— Caroline Lucas

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

— Clare Short

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

— Lee Westwood

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

— Ernest Bevin

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me…

— RuPaul

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

— Lucy Powell