British Quotes · Page 22

I think it's difficult for British coaches to get a job at the top clubs and may get harder as time goes…

— Eddie Howe

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

— Maria Sharapova

Some of the most fundamental beliefs in our world view have evolved from British universities.

— Gavin Williamson

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

— George Ezra

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone…

— Guy Garvey

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

— Howard Jacobson

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

— Nicholas Rodger

We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.

— Ian Brown

The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize…

— Frank Spotnitz

There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with…

— Mark Strong

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust…

— Linda Colley

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and…

— Lord Robertson

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which…

— Alice Oswald

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an…

— Dean Ambrose

Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring - and I use the word deliberately - in order…

— Mark Francois

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the…

— Michael Portillo

It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House…

— Margaret Thatcher

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.…

— Louis de Bernieres

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were…

— Eva Ibbotson

It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule…

— Stephen Colbert

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is…

— Naomi Wolf

The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They…

— Samuel P. Huntington

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

— Frankie Boyle

Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this…

— Richard Rodriguez

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated…

— Gary Oldman

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the…

— Winston Churchill

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

— Jackie Coogan

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

— James Connolly

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine…

— James Corden

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

— David Soul

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian.

— Mary H.K. Choi

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

— Vera Lynn

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

— H. H. Asquith

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

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'

— John Lanchester

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

— Oscar Wilde

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the…

— Martin Parr