British Quotes · Page 8

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.

— Gina Miller

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

I give no more paroles to British officers.

— Christopher Gadsden

I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.

— Sajid Javid

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

— Eddie Mair

I've had a fantastic relationship with the British public.

— Noel Edmonds

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Eating some of those British people's food in 'Celebrity Big Brother' had me turning green and gave me some food poisoning.

— Spencer Pratt

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.

— Francois Hollande

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads,…

— Emo Philips

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

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

— Winston Churchill

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at…

— Bernadette Devlin

'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's…

— Simon Hoggart

The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The main thing is always try to find different voices for yourself. If you're in your car just driving somewhere you can…

— Ashly Burch

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back…

— Irvine Welsh

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators…

— Amartya Sen

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were…

— Damian Lewis

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India.…

— Meaghan Rath

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the…

— Charles R. Morris

...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the…

— Elbridge Gerry

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British…

— Johann Hari

In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or…

— Margo Kaufman

I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with…

— Gordon Brown

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of…

— Paul Weller

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations…

— John Henrik Clarke

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three…

— John Adams

I wanted to defend my British Title but no one would step up to fight me.

— Daniel Dubois

I'm proud of winning the British Open in 1983 when I was very young.

— Shirley Ballas

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

— Banks

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

— Nigel Farage

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

— Eli Wallach

I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.

— Benedict Wong

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

— John Osborne

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

— John Oliver