British Quotes · Page 38

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

— Gary Jarman

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in…

— Eva Green

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

— Terry Wogan

“The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.”

— Bea Davenport

I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating…

— Toto Wolff

I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

I'm proud of being British. I'm proud of being Asian. I'm proud of being a Muslim. I'm proud of being Pakistani.

— Naughty Boy

We have a lot of black British men who are killing it: John Boyega, Stormzy, Anthony Joshua, Tinie Tempah, and Idris Elba,…

— MNEK

What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen…

— Brandon Sanderson

Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British…

— Rick Riordan

Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of…

— Barry Gardiner

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating…

— Conrad Black

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their…

— Linda Chavez

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the…

— John Hume

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority…

— Pierre Daninos

It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower…

— David Icke

“I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse Upon the Kennet and Avon Council, May they wander the land for ever, Never…

— Jez Butterworth

Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not…

— Linda Colley

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate…

— Jonathan Davis

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced…

— Isaac Asimov

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to…

— Freddie Mercury

I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is…

— Joseph Chamberlain

I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated…

— John Oliver

A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.

— Gavin Esler

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

— Ken Livingstone

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are,…

— Winston Churchill

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

— Baron George-Brown George Brown

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published…

— Tibor Fischer

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

— Anthony Burgess

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.

— Penny Mordaunt

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it…

— Thomas Beecham

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

— Linda Colley

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

— Harry Shearer

“Because the whole British thing you have going on makes me want to do very wicked things to your mouth.”

— Christina Lauren

Too close and unthinking an allegiance to Washington has sometimes got British governments into trouble.

— Linda Colley

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman…

— Peter Pook

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

— George Osborne