There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on… — Bob Ainsworth Copy Share Image
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into… — Paul Revere Copy Share Image
“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I think we all love to watch something we know is going to go catastrophically wrong - the old banana skin syndrome,… — Sarah Alexander Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The old style of British wrestling is a lot different than the American style, and that's what I was trained in. It's… — Pete Dunne Copy Share Image
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner… — Michael York Copy Share Image
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image