British people Quotes

British people do not like being bossed around.

— John Redwood

The British people are the boss.

— Tony Blair

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

— George Osborne

The British people have always been a practical breed.

— Damian Green

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

— Martin Freeman

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

— Anonymous

Under the European Communities Act 1972, the British people - through its Parliament - could not say 'no' to new E.U. rules.

— Suella Braverman

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

— Vera Lynn

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

— Tom Allen

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

— George Osborne

To inspire the British people we need to look different, sound different, and offer something new. I believe I can do that.

— James Cleverly

Together, America and the United Kingdom are a beacon for prosperity and the rule of law. That is why the United States…

— Donald Trump

We need to provide leadership, stability and confidence to the British people. We cannot indulge in parochial or nativist fantasies.

— Suella Braverman

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

Bring me another bad one, and I shall protect my British people - I brought down Thatcher to protect my people, and…

— Rik Mayall

Great Britain didn't just happen; the British people created this country through decades and centuries of hard work, fighting for democracy, the…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere…

— Julianne Moore

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have…

— Rege-Jean Page

The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau…

— Tom Ford

“According to Yiannis' sister Irini, who had trained as a hairdresser in London, the British spent their long winters in grey and…

— Alison Fell

The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm a proud Indian but I feel very, very happy that people have accepted me here as well in the west. It's…

— Shilpa Shetty

I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the…

— Frankie Boyle

Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“Dad's office was actually one of the smaller rooms at Thorne. Inside was pretty nice,though. There was a cherrywood desk and ivory…

— Rachel Hawkins

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense…

— Larry King

“There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time…

— Anonymous

“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some people owe everything they have to the bank accounts of their parents. I owe the state. Put simply, the state educated…

— Zadie Smith

“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic…

— Anonymous

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number…

— Margaret Thatcher

“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have…

— Doris Lessing

The majority of British people voted in good faith for the U.K. to leave the E.U.

— Suella Braverman

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

— Monica Bellucci

The purpose of Conservative Budgets is to empower the British people and revitalise the country.

— Priti Patel