British Quotes · Page 38

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

— Patrick Henry

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud

The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"

— Lewis Black

A thousand years of uninterrupted British sovereignty has taught us one thing. If change isn't allowed to be a process, it becomes…

— Penny Mordaunt

British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea…

— David Harewood

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

— David Walliams

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

— Thomas Day

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to…

— Monty Don

I don't work for a sports network, per se. I'm on once a week for the NBA and then we only do…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to…

— Kelly Reilly

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the…

— Camille Paglia

Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead…

— Sophie Okonedo

Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter…

— Kevin Macdonald

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as…

— Anthony Daniels

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the…

— Sean Lemass

I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or…

— Julian Assange

I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When…

— J. K. Rowling

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more…

— Bill Bryson

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people…

— Winston Churchill

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .…

— Bertrand Russell

“Last night I read about a dish Gemma made for the staff for breakfast, which sounded really good despite its horrible name.…

— Stacey Ballis

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also…

— Paul Zollo

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?

— Greg Proops

I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

— Shahid Khan

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get…

— Raymond Burr

I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.

— Ivan Rakitic

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make…

— Omid Djalili

I know British stadiums from my time with Barcelona and Villarreal. The atmosphere is phenomenal, and my first match at Anfield will…

— Pepe Reina

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

— Thein Sein

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

— John Cusack

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

— Donald Pleasence

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never…

— Danny Boyle

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services…

— Winston Churchill

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman…

— Catherine Ashton

Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with…

— Jayma Mays

The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of…

— Emily Thornberry

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

— Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

— Charles Dance