British Quotes · Page 8

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

— Robert Vaughn

I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.

— Tony Bellew

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

The British government is a murder machine.

— Peter King

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

— Simon Newcomb

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

— George Osborne

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

— Linda Colley

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

— Michael Heseltine

“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.”

— Stephen Clarke

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

— Horace Walpole

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

— Jeremy Irvine

“At no point during the making of this book have I inverted my penis although I did go to Blackpool which turned…

— Matt Rudd

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

— Simon Jenkins

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact,…

— Bob Hope

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

— Martin Schulz

Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music…

— Sylvie Simmons

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists…

— Michael Ignatieff

British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight…

— Jay Leno

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and…

— Mercy Otis Warren

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of…

— Jacques Chirac

I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very…

— Steven Bauer

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the…

— Will Self

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I…

— John le Carre

In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban…

— Chris Alexander

A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.…

— Linda Colley

“They say watch the breathing, watch the diet and for God’s sake make that kid go quiet. But they never say: “I…

— Mircea Popister

“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed…

— Humphry Davy

A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly…

— Henry Adams

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association…

— Jim Keith

Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to…

— Domenico Dolce

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

— George Osborne

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

— Georges Duhamel

I'll never understand why British people lose their accent when they sing.

— Anonymous

I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.

— Allan Border

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

— Roger Bannister

I've never lost my Scots accent but my son has a classic British accent.

— David Coulthard

There's something very British about the word naughty.

— Naughty Boy

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

— Mahatma Gandhi