I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so… — John Amery Copy Share Image
By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?" "I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left… — Ida Cook Copy Share Image
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either.… — Herbert Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
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