British Quotes · Page 86

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did…

— Michael Lewis

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

— Ken Livingstone

I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of…

— Anna Wintour

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

— Kevin Spacey

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.

— Gavin McInnes

We want the NHS to be able to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs. And we want British businesses to be…

— Ed Davey

We shot in British Columbia and I miss it. I've actually gone back a couple of times just to see the country.…

— Ryan Paevey

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British,…

— Chris Froome

I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

— Slash

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

My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation…

— Lee Kuan Yew

A decision by the government to arm the rebels in Syria ought to be taken as carefully as one to commit British…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

— Shahid Khan

Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.

— Cher Lloyd

I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite…

— Rhianna Pratchett

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that…

— David McCullough

Earnestness makes British people gag.

— Pamela Druckerman

I'm incredibly excited to be joining the 'Doctor Who' family. It's such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn't be prouder to call…

— Pearl Mackie

British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one…

— Ed Davey

Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted…

— Indira Gandhi

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American…

— Paul Harris