British Quotes · Page 25

My British accent often made me close my throat and sing from all the wrong places.

— Jen Ledger

Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got…

— Craig Ferguson

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show…

— Brad Paisley

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

We fought against British not because of the color of their skin but also because of the exploitative character of their government.

— Arvind Kejriwal

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

— Leon M. Lederman

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

— Bill Bryson

“A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms…

— Douglas Adams

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French…

— Michael Baden

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent,…

— Simon Schama

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It…

— Antony Sher

It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another…

— Tristram Stuart

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles…

— Anonymous

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the…

— David Miliband

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up…

— Gavin Esler

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians…

— Simon Hoggart

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more…

— Peter Hilton

The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and…

— Caroline Alexander

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been…

— Maurice Cowling

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman…

— Joseph Addison

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Anonymous

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

— Janet McTeer

It has been my privilege to serve as Home Secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster…

— Suella Braverman

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email…

— George Galloway

We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

— Amanda Foreman

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

— Joss Whedon

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel…

— Stephen Rodrick

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

— Lee Wulff

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that…

— Noel Clarke

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

— David Miliband

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never…

— Oscar Wilde

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

— Steven Berkoff