British Quotes · Page 25

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

— Sam Gyimah

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I…

— Benedict Wong

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

— Margaret Heffernan

...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH.

— Meg Cabot

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

— Monica Bellucci

The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's…

— Nigel Benn

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

— Paddy Ashdown

I guess the British audience accepted us for being refreshing and interesting.

— Moa Kikuchi

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a…

— Adolf Hitler

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably…

— Parminder Nagra

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our…

— Bhagat Singh

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British…

— Rishi Sunak

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British…

— Melanie

And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in…

— Naomi Klein

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial…

— Edgar Mitchell

The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb,…

— George Friedman

Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they…

— Michael Burry

“Yes, the Americans and the British were alike in some things. They were surface people, skimming over past history, picking out the…

— Helen MacInnes

there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even…

— Ann Bridge

They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a…

— Trevor Noah

I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific…

— Nalo Hopkinson

Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover…

— Nayantara Sahgal

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.

— Marine Le Pen

I was genuinely shocked to even be in the frame for a sitcom role on British TV.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

— John Hancock

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going…

— Peter Capaldi

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the…

— Emma Watson

I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at…

— Ben Howard

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

— Linda Evangelista

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

— Anne Rice

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

— Charles Stross

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

— Alan Rickman

I've been a fan of Lara Croft. She's gorgeous. She's sexy. She's iconic. She's British.

— Camilla Luddington

To inspire the British people we need to look different, sound different, and offer something new. I believe I can do that.

— James Cleverly

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

— Cat Deeley

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

— Antony Beevor

In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.

— Lee Mack

“Q. Why don't the British panic? A. They do, but very quietly. It is impossible for the naked eye to tell their…

— George Mikes