Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
British Bombs' is a tune I wrote about the hypocrisy of the British arms trade. — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. — Ian Paisley Copy Share Image
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha Copy Share Image
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I used to wear a kilt to all black-tie events but now I only wear it at non-U.K. events. As a British… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
I like to adapt some of the traditional dishes from my childhood from both NZ and Samoa using British ingredients and European… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads,… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong.… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years. — Bradley Wiggins Copy Share Image
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me. — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
