British Quotes · Page 37

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

— David Olusoga

Personally, I hope that we British continue to criticise America - just as I hope Americans will criticise us. That is what…

— Gavin Esler

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

— Claire Foy

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

— Dan Jenkins

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

— Michael Gove

Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids…

— Mats Wilander

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

— Jimmy O. Yang

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City -…

— Francois Hollande

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I…

— Carmen Ejogo

To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to…

— Mae West

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite…

— Pete Townshend

In 2016, and again in 2019, the British people voted to take back control. They voted to take back control from an…

— Suella Braverman

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates…

— John T. Flynn

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the…

— Joan Collins

'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a…

— Brandon Flowers

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .…

— Winston Churchill

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S.…

— Noam Chomsky

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very…

— Simon Schama

The Black Watch is one of the most illustrious regiments. They've been at the vanguard of British military operations for 400 years.…

— John Tiffany

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like…

— Olivia De Havilland

Wrestling in general is a lot more Americanized, to use that term loosely. Back when I started, there were still a few…

— Pete Dunne

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the…

— Khaled Hosseini

I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always…

— Gary Neville

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

— Nicky Morgan

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

— Stephen King

I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out…

— Josh O'Connor

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any…

— Neve McIntosh

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

— Sarah Waters

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

“Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.”

— Rachel Hawkins

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

— Thom Yorke

I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm…

— Toyah Willcox

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

— Ken Hakuta

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the…

— Carrie Lam

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

— Michaela Coel

“Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.”

— Russell T. Davies

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

— Luke Evans

That's the British press. Can you tell me one successful sportsperson that doesn't get slammed?

— Denise Lewis