It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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

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

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

— Lily Cole

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

— Kurt Cobain

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

— Paloma Faith

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

“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

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

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month…

— Argus Hamilton