British Quotes · Page 20

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

— Anthony Burgess

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

— Gregg Wallace

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

— Stafford Cripps

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

— Brenda Fricker

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

— George Mikes

I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.

— Frankie Boyle

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

— Dominic West

The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. It made me want to move to New York.

— Bebe Buell

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of…

— Harold Pinter

All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and…

— Andrea Tantaros

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that…

— Christopher Koch

There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down…

— Monty Don

Even under Poch, he had a different culture to the British. It wasn't that he didn't understand it. You know the British…

— Danny Rose

For the record, I am actually British as well as Australian. People always think I'm Australian but I'm happy for the Brits…

— Naomi Watts

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my…

— Dorian Yates

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

— Larry King

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's…

— Charles Stross

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight,…

— Wilbur Smith

I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose…

— Eva Green

Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to…

— Domenico Dolce

The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association…

— Jim Keith

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in…

— Tim Harford

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…

— Thomas Jefferson

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in…

— Simon Beaufoy

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part…

— Laura Carmichael

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.

— Ant McPartlin

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“The man’s a twit.” “I love when you get all British.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’m always all British”

— Suzanne Enoch

Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

— Mel Giedroyc

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I hope my play, 'Sancho,' will contribute a little to an understanding of our shared British history, whoever we are.

— Paterson Joseph

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

— Clive James

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that…

— Freddie Mercury

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

— Margaret Thatcher

Other British clubs were interested. I thought about it, but Manchester United is a dream club for me.

— Andreas Pereira

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across…

— Natalie Massenet

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon