British Quotes · Page 18

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

— Michael Heseltine

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

— George Osborne

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'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

— John Oliver

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add…

— Naomie Harris

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

— Austin Mahone

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper…

— David Ben-Gurion

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and…

— Alan Hansen

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it…

— Toks Olagundoye

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

— Mariella Frostrup

You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers…

— Gilbert Gottfried

A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of…

— Tom Gjelten

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am…

— Carolina Herrera

Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled…

— Richard Quest

Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an…

— Michael Dirda

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in…

— Gavin McInnes

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support…

— Anonymous

Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and…

— Robert Plant

Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was now somewhere in…

— Erik Larson

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course,…

— Suzy Menkes

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run…

— Lord Chesterfield

"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He…

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

— David Cameron

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

— Robert Vaughn

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

— Ben Nicholson

“Australia was not Britain, and its law would not be just British.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

— Keegan-Michael Key

A lot of British players had more potential than me. But they slipped away.

— Tim Henman