British Quotes · Page 44

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

— Laurel Van Ness

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

— Ellsworth Huntington

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

— Jonathan Bailey

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to…

— William Hague

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

— Austin Butler

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

— Richard Baker

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

— Verne Troyer

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in…

— Gordon Sinclair

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents…

— Ronald Hutton

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to…

— Peter Webber

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up…

— Linda Colley

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of…

— Vince Cable

I feel I let everyone British sport, British boxing, my community, my home town of Manchester, my family my kids, I feel…

— Ricky Hatton

In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had…

— Saul David

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the…

— Jackie Stewart

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British…

— Philip French

Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign…

— Dominic Cummings

Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?"…

— Richelle Mead

In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself…

— Linda Colley

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers…

— Manfred Rommel

He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries…

— George Steiner

The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not…

— James G. Frazer

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

— James Joyce

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

— James Purefoy

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what…

— Jessie J

There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not!

— Josh O'Connor

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is…

— Anthony Hopkins

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

— Ivor Novello

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

— June Callwood

I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

— McG

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

— Shashi Tharoor

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an…

— Nandan Nilekani

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian…

— Art Malik

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

— Noam Chomsky

The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.

— Priti Patel

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British…

— Devon Aoki

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

— Kunal Nayyar

I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in…

— Gabriella Wilde