British Quotes · Page 43

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and…

— Alan Hansen

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Toks Olagundoye

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

— Mariella Frostrup

It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

— Jack Nicklaus

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of…

— Calvin Harris

The British public are kind and generous, have buckets of common sense, and value fairness. We are known for it; other nations…

— Penny Mordaunt

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was…

— Olivia Newton-John

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos;…

— Stafford Cripps

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are…

— Claire Bloom

The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed…

— Lionel Barber

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill…

— Elie Wiesel

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits…

— Hayley Atwell

I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety…

— Stanley Baldwin

“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by…

— Stephen Fry

If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower,…

— Paul Revere

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair…

— Adrian Bell

I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the…

— Chris Hoy

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was…

— George Mason

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of…

— James Otis

Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in…

— Richard Glover

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead…

— John Terraine

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

— John Osborne

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

— Dick Strawbridge

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

— Robert Carlyle

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and…

— Jason Gann

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came…

— Bob Hope

The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

— Noam Chomsky

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when…

— Joseph Addison

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

— Irvine Welsh

As far as filming for TV goes, I like to go where the food is definitely of interest to British people.

— Rick Stein

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being…

— Sadiq Khan

Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

— Arlene Phillips

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

— Adam Lambert

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

— Scott Adsit