British Quotes · Page 2

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— Ally Carter

I'm proud to be British.

— Anonymous

“The British are coming.”

— Paul Revere

British comedy fans go crazy.

— Chris Lilley

I very much consider myself British.

— Ainsley Harriott

I don't have a good British accent.

— Serena Williams

Earnestness makes British people gag.

— Pamela Druckerman

The British are so funny.

— Rose Byrne

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

— Shannon Hale

Good planning is what the British people expects the Government to do.

— Gavin Williamson

My family has always been proud of being British.

— Sadiq Khan

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

— Wade Barrett

Reality TV killed the British television industry.

— Danny John-Jules

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

— Robert B. Weide

I like '28 Days Later,' because I feel like it's really British.

— Ellie Rowsell

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

— David Morrissey

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern…

— Doris Lessing

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

— Michael Gove

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

— David Moyes

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape…

— Clive Lewis

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything…

— Cobie Smulders

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard…

— Ridley Scott

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from…

— Joel Plaskett

The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of…

— Maajid Nawaz

It doesn't matter how many people say 'don't be hard on yourself,' I feel like I have to redeem myself to my…

— Ricky Hatton

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British…

— Rupert Everett

There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but…

— Richey Edwards

It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be…

— Tom Paulin

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their…

— Linda Colley

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has…

— Heinrich Harrer

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too…

— Manfred Rommel

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the…

— J. D. Salinger

McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great…

— John Galliano

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male…

— Michael Parkinson

I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,…

— Billy Collins

“He looks at me, the circle, then me again. “It’s really you, right? I didn’t create some simulacrum that was inhabited by…

— Vaughn R. Demont

Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British,…

— Wangechi Mutu