British Quotes · Page 21

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

— Trish Regan

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part…

— Laura Carmichael

I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.

— Nigel Farage

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

— Christopher Moore

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

— Rory Bremner

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

— Martin Freeman

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

— Rufus Sewell

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part,…

— John Quincy Adams

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so…

— Mario Testino

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,…

— Richard Rogers

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out…

— Nick Harkaway

I think we all love to watch something we know is going to go catastrophically wrong - the old banana skin syndrome,…

— Sarah Alexander

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a…

— Alan Titchmarsh

The old style of British wrestling is a lot different than the American style, and that's what I was trained in. It's…

— Pete Dunne

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had…

— Tom Paulin

At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting…

— Jill Douglas

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and…

— Lee Kuan Yew

The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber…

— Camille Paglia

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in…

— George Orwell

The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who…

— Wole Soyinka

I chew a special brand of gum that you can't get in America. It's British, and it's called Airwaves. It's a menthol…

— Rob Halford

“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1) "Is this one of the…

— Nina Jon

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

— Nigel Lythgoe

British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.

— Ed Davey

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

— Rita Ora

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy.…

— Bradley Walsh

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the…

— George C. Marshall

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain…

— Nick Park

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

— Jeremy Kyle

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no…

— Ronald Blythe

It's so surreal to join 'Great British Menu,' because I'm a massive fan of the show.

— Andi Oliver

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

— Joe Lycett

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

— Lionel Barber

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

— Jojo Moyes

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The Great British Bake Off' has rapidly evolved into one of the nation's favourite TV shows.

— John Whaite

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is…

— Anthony Hopkins