British Quotes · Page 35

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

— Kenneth Clarke

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

— Mike Myers

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them,…

— Amos Oz

I like to feel comfortable. I love British brands, and I enjoy dressing in a way that makes me feel good.

— Suki Waterhouse

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

— Brenda Fricker

'Strictly' is so loved by the British public, I have always been a massive fan.

— Shirley Ballas

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

— Carolina Herrera

It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is…

— Robert Lacey

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco…

— George Orwell

Loading a hollowed-out loaf of bread with steak, mushrooms, shallots, and a fat dose of horseradish yields a kind of portable beef…

— Jonathan Miles

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on…

— Louise Brown

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not…

— Ash Sarkar

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not…

— David Olusoga

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for…

— Winston Churchill

“Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book…

— John Colville

The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic…

— Robert Fisk

I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that…

— Arthur Penn

I think Britain's economy has done extremely well from having the influx of talented people from around the world and from having…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to…

— Ben Kingsley

Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and…

— William Regal

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in…

— Lionel Shriver

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on…

— Linda Colley

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

— Clare Short

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

— Anonymous

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

— John Major

I love supporting British companies, especially British fashion, and Ted Baker just encapsulates our heritage.

— Vick Hope

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

— Naftali Bennett

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the…

— Jackson Browne

I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how…

— James Blunt

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

— George A. Romero

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

— Martin McGuinness

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

— Colin Mochrie

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

— John Major

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

— David Miliband

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

— Rachel Maddow

I watch 'The Great British Bake Off' in the way I used to watch people kiss on TV in front of my…

— Katie Hopkins

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

— Wallace Stevens