The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New… — Michael King Copy Share Image
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Basically, a lot of people have asked to jump on 'Shutdown' remix, I'm not gonna front. But 'cause of quality control, we… — Skepta Copy Share Image
British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for… — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
My father was a commercial deep-sea diver in exotic locations and my mom was British and we would travel there every year.… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
“(On Captain Britain) "Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
The links between the British and the Dutch royal families are strong - Queen Beatrix's grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, was evacuated to Britain… — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
