British Quotes · Page 17

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

— Tariq Ali

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

— Paris Hilton

It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors.

— Ryan Cartwright

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

— Paul Revere

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

— Anna Sui

Probably the best looking British Tennis player in the world.

— Andy Murray

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

— Anonymous

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

— Jack Nicklaus

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead…

— John Terraine

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

— John Osborne

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

— Dick Strawbridge

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

— Robert Carlyle

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and…

— Jason Gann

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came…

— Bob Hope

The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and…

— Kevin Macdonald

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad…

— Natalie Dormer

On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government…

— Bill Browder

I suppose there wasn't a well-worn path into the British space programme because we didn't really have a space programme. Dad was…

— Jeremy Hardy

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

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

It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada…

— Craig Ferguson

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

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and…

— Nat Hentoff

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's…

— Indira Gandhi

The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels…

— Douglas Adams

The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British…

— George Mikes

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Georges Duhamel

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

Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.

— Cher Lloyd

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

— Linda Colley