British Quotes · Page 42

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.

— Sharon Stone

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

— Farah Khan

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

— Mike Jackson

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

— James Connolly

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be…

— Estelle

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for…

— Duke of Wellington

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware,…

— Adam Rayner

I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear…

— Diane von Furstenberg

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as…

— Brian Cox

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a…

— Ferdinand Mount

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later…

— Anand Mahindra

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot.…

— Dick Van Dyke

Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I…

— Lee Ranaldo

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the…

— Sadiq Khan

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of…

— Kieran Bew

Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common…

— Michael Strong

Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,…

— Doris Lessing

...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later…

— William Dalrymple

This [British] dossier is still considered to be mostly uncorroborated but it's overall allegation is that the Trump folks knew, the [Donald]…

— Rachel Maddow

It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans]…

— Manfred Rommel

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When…

— Marisha Pessl

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

— Callum Smith

I think its a very British thing, murder mystery, and I think 'Death in Paradise' is an extension of that, just adding…

— Danny John-Jules

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

— Sean Lennon

A lot of British people of my age would not have know of the terrible treatment of Nelson Mandela if not for…

— William Regal

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't…

— Phil Collins

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

— Arnold Palmer

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent…

— Eric Fellner

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in…

— Anthony Browne

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

— Dave Mustaine

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

— Glynis Johns

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

— Melvyn Bragg

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

— Bob Hope

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are…

— Jay Kay

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add…

— Naomie Harris

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

— Austin Mahone

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper…

— David Ben-Gurion