British Quotes · Page 34

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

— Claire Foy

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

— Tony Parsons

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

— William Randolph Hearst

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

— Tim Harford

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic…

— Charley Reese

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

— Luke Ford

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

— Emma Thompson

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

— Stephen Fry

The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater,…

— David Suchet

There is a common British delusion that we 'understand' America. We don't. Watching 'Friends' listening to Bruce Springsteen, eating at McDonald's and…

— Gavin Esler

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more…

— Walter Scott

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it…

— Toks Olagundoye

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it…

— George Bernard Shaw

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his…

— Tony Benn

We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch…

— N. T. Wright

“As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a…

— Julian Fellowes

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is…

— Naomi Wolf

It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule…

— Stephen Colbert

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were…

— Eva Ibbotson

The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They…

— Samuel P. Huntington

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House…

— Margaret Thatcher

If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant…

— Sally Rooney

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.…

— Nick Clegg

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.…

— Louis de Bernieres

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

— Ioan Gruffudd

British boxing fans are amazing, and the O2 is one of the best venues in the world.

— Paulie Malignaggi

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without…

— Clement Attlee

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

— Roger Moore

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

— Alexander Woollcott

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

— Noel Edmonds

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

— David Eagleman

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now…

— Brenda Blethyn

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had…

— Tony Blair

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

— Steven Wright

The prospect of voluntarily travelling to a war zone with your young children is not one which most British women would ever…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

— Linda Colley

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.

— Saara Aalto

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

— Timothy Garton Ash