In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But…

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

— Sam Heughan

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that…

— Jodi Picoult

I was teased at school for having a posh voice even though there was nothing posh about us.

— Alexander Armstrong

“The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes…

— Romain Gary

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside…

— Steven Berkoff

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can…

— Lapo Elkann

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

— Julian Fellowes

I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to…

— Maisie Williams

“With all its ethnic and cultural diversity, there’s nowhere else like London for tolerance , compassion and humanity.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was…

— Nelson Mandela

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

— Sam Wanamaker

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

— Kurt Cobain

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

— Omid Djalili

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at…

— Mario Testino