British Quotes · Page 15

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July…

— Gordon Brown

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

— McG

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

— Bob Hope

The British people are the boss.

— Tony Blair

British women can't cook.

— Prince Philip

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

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

— Tinie Tempah

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe…

— David Cameron

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

— Heather Brooke

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

— Grigor Dimitrov

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well…

— Melina Mercouri

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over…

— Rich Fulcher

“I’m not a number. I’m a free man. And here is a pot plant, novelty coffee mug and a framed picture of…

— The Prisoner

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not…

— Paterson Joseph

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

— Dan Jenkins

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

— Ioan Gruffudd

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

— Jeremy Irvine

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority…

— Pierre Daninos

We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

— Natalie Massenet

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

— William Rees-Mogg

British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea…

— David Harewood

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

— Said Musa