British Quotes · Page 40

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

— Gunther Rall

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

— Michael Douglas

I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,

— Gwyneth Paltrow

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that…

— Keith Flint

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are…

— Piers Morgan

I'm proud to be British champion, and I'll defend it until I can get a fight for a world title.

— Callum Smith

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

— Bill Bryson

I think it's difficult for British coaches to get a job at the top clubs and may get harder as time goes…

— Eddie Howe

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see…

— Ricky Whittle

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the…

— Ernest Shackleton

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of…

— Ian Mckellen

I was fighting on PPV for British titles, making good money from pretty much day one, so how can people who I've…

— James DeGale

U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets,…

— Barry Gardiner

Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on…

— Peter Bergen

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to…

— J. B. Priestley

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth.…

— Vince Cable

The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership…

— Nigel Lawson

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore,…

— Anonymous

The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those…

— Christopher Bailey

“My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two…

— Virchand Gandhi

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed…

— Edmund Burke

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against…

— Rick Atkinson

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor.…

— Elton John

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or…

— Matt Haig

Some of the most fundamental beliefs in our world view have evolved from British universities.

— Gavin Williamson

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

— Maria Sharapova

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone…

— Guy Garvey

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

— Howard Jacobson

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

— George Ezra

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

— Jonathan Krisel

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

— Steven Morrissey

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on…

— John Major

'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the…

— Jed Mercurio

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

— John Lennon

“Wait. Stephen Fry is gay?” “Ohmigod, how are you alive?” “I thought he was just British!”

— Alis Franklin

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

— Harold MacMillan

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part…

— Laura Carmichael

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in…

— Simon Beaufoy

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.

— Ant McPartlin