British Quotes · Page 41

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“The man’s a twit.” “I love when you get all British.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’m always all British”

— Suzanne Enoch

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

— Mel Giedroyc

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

— Gregg Wallace

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

— Stafford Cripps

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

— Brenda Fricker

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

— George Mikes

There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and…

— David Linley

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does…

— Herman Melville

I thought Ring Of Honor didn't have any British guys. And I can come to Ring Of Honor and not only have…

— Marty Scurll

Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial…

— Charles R. Morris

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of…

— Winston Churchill

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money.…

— Mike Nichols

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I…

— Daniel Radcliffe

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied…

— Tina Brown

The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling…

— William Hartung

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of…

— Edward Gibbon

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known…

— Michael Caine

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for…

— Martin McGuinness

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not…

— Karl Marx

The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but…

— Mark Shields

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why…

— Gerald Horne

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They…

— Ladislas Farago

I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.

— Frankie Boyle

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

— Dominic West

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. It made me want to move to New York.

— Bebe Buell

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

— Reinhold Messner

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British…

— Rupert Friend

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays…

— Sebastian Coe

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

— Stephen Leacock

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

— Clive James

I hope my play, 'Sancho,' will contribute a little to an understanding of our shared British history, whoever we are.

— Paterson Joseph

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that…

— Freddie Mercury

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across…

— Natalie Massenet

Other British clubs were interested. I thought about it, but Manchester United is a dream club for me.

— Andreas Pereira

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

— Margaret Thatcher