The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well,… — George Seaton Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was.… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
After we leave the E.U., the British Standards Institute should also remain a member of the European Standards Organisation, which is not… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City -… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to… — Mae West Copy Share Image
In 2016, and again in 2019, the British people voted to take back control. They voted to take back control from an… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book… — John Colville Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
British media supported Hillary. No problem with that. No interference. Nothing. French media supported Hillary. No problem with that. Some Russian media… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large… — Owen Paterson Copy Share Image
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater,… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
There is a common British delusion that we 'understand' America. We don't. Watching 'Friends' listening to Bruce Springsteen, eating at McDonald's and… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Loading a hollowed-out loaf of bread with steak, mushrooms, shallots, and a fat dose of horseradish yields a kind of portable beef… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline… — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
