British Quotes · Page 26

It's like I'm held up as some kind of beacon of England - or some bloody British bulldog.

— Helen Baxendale

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

— Roland Joffe

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

— Johann Hari

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

— Camille Paglia

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

— Steven Spielberg

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

— Richard Flanagan

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in…

— Mike Myers

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both…

— Tom Paulin

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…

— Neil MacGregor

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or…

— Michael Ignatieff

The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I watch a lot of British television so people like Olivia Coleman, Sheridan Smith and Jodie Comer continue to inspire me with…

— Mandip Gill

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a…

— Elsa Maxwell

There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license…

— Paul Douglas

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate…

— David Starkey

I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything from my weight to my…

— Erin O'Connor

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan…

— L'Wren Scott

The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley's group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley's dad,…

— Rachel Maddow

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making…

— Kevin Watkins

You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the…

— Frederick Lenz

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

— John Scarlett

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already…

— Andrew Neil

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

— John Grant

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

— Johann Hari

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

— Robert Fisk

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do…

— Tracey Ullman

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

— Jeremy Irvine

“At no point during the making of this book have I inverted my penis although I did go to Blackpool which turned…

— Matt Rudd

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

— Simon Jenkins

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact,…

— Bob Hope

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

— Lee Child

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

— Fergus Henderson

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not…

— Kevin Brownlow

“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.”

— Stephen Clarke

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

— Horace Walpole