British Quotes · Page 33

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

— Martin Fleischmann

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I…

— Brian Cox

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

— Moss Hart

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

— Said Musa

To go in the record books as British champion is something else and a step towards being top of the division.

— Daniel Dubois

It was the British who began the tradition of parliamentary democracy, now emulated all over the world.

— Suella Braverman

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year…

— Eric Bana

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never…

— Geoff Mulgan

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for…

— Joel Edgerton

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt…

— Andrea Bocelli

We want the NHS to be able to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs. And we want British businesses to be…

— Ed Davey

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's…

— Alex Kingston

What I want to achieve in boxing is worldwide. I want to show I'm not just a British commodity... To do that,…

— David Haye

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives…

— Simon Jenkins

“Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who…

— Antony Jay

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense…

— Larry King

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in…

— Douglas Alexander

Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this…

— Richard Rodriguez

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the…

— Frankie Boyle

I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much…

— Joseph Addison

People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is…

— Dale Jamieson

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

— Austen Chamberlain

As a British woman, I now have the great honour of delivering that project for my constituents in the greatest Parliament on…

— Kemi Badenoch

At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

— Philip Freneau

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they…

— Daniel Hannan

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

— Adam Lambert

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

— George Vancouver

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

— Billy Squier

I'm a fairly traditional British cook, as my partner Cathy doesn't enjoy spicy food, although I like to experiment myself.

— Michael Ball

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

— Naomie Harris

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

— Paddy Chayefsky

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

— Alisher Usmanov

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July…

— Gordon Brown

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms…

— Mahatma Gandhi

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

— Alistair Cooke

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

— Scott Capurro