British Quotes · Page 27

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

— Lee Wulff

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel…

— Stephen Rodrick

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

— Joss Whedon

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

— David Miliband

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that…

— Noel Clarke

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

I think that the anti-Semitic problem in the British Muslim community is worse than among the community at large.

— Mehdi Hasan

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that…

— Christopher Koch

Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down…

— Monty Don

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my…

— Dorian Yates

For the record, I am actually British as well as Australian. People always think I'm Australian but I'm happy for the Brits…

— Naomi Watts

Even under Poch, he had a different culture to the British. It wasn't that he didn't understand it. You know the British…

— Danny Rose

In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a…

— Webster Tarpley

As a human being I am personally saddened, as I have a great deal of respect for the large number of British…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But…

— Thomas Jefferson

The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a…

— Eric Weiner

Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust…

— Charles R. Swindoll

“When, in May, tensions reached a high point, London warned Berlin that if it attacked Czechoslovakia and the French were embroiled as…

— Madeleine Albright

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians…

— Simon Hoggart

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more…

— Peter Hilton

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

— Elvis Costello

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

— Steven Berkoff

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never…

— Oscar Wilde

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

— Anonymous

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

It has been my privilege to serve as Home Secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster…

— Suella Braverman

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

— Janet McTeer

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email…

— George Galloway

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

— Amanda Foreman

We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming…

— Maxine Peake

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but…

— Weyes Blood

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

— Grigor Dimitrov

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

— Anne Applebaum

We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier