British Quotes · Page 48

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

— Graham Chapman

There is no doubt that the European Indoors is an important event for British athletes.

— Colin Jackson

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

— Tim Roth

My goal in boxing was to be Southern Area champion, might have a shot at the British, might own my own terraced…

— Nigel Benn

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

— Ernest Bevin

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

— Lee Westwood

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

— Clare Short

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

— Caroline Lucas

When I think about how badly I wanted to be a player, and how obsessed I was with the game, I think…

— Tim Henman

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave…

— Lily Collins

“Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled. She snapped the box closed. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run.…

— Cora Carmack

I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have…

— Francis Ledwidge

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S.…

— John Oliver

The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of…

— Layla Moran

I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used…

— Rita Ora

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves,…

— Jesmyn Ward

In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's…

— Indira Gandhi

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it…

— William J. Clinton

The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society…

— Wole Soyinka

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least…

— Nolan North

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and…

— Nat Hentoff

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are…

— Marilynne Robinson

You can tell I'm a very, very British person, but I've kept my roots quite strong. I still speak Farsi.

— Omid Djalili

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything…

— Cobie Smulders

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape…

— Clive Lewis

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

— George Mikes

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

— Lucy Powell

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me…

— RuPaul

Love Actually' is the most Marmite of all British films. Does it make you want to cry, or be copiously sick with…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

— James Blunt

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

— Simon Cowell

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

— David Morrissey

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern…

— Doris Lessing

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

— Michael Gove

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

— David Moyes