British Quotes · Page 26

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

— Brenda Fricker

'Strictly' is so loved by the British public, I have always been a massive fan.

— Shirley Ballas

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

— Carolina Herrera

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

— Martin Fleischmann

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered…

— Sophie Okonedo

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

To go in the record books as British champion is something else and a step towards being top of the division.

— Daniel Dubois

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

— Said Musa

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part,…

— John Quincy Adams

I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest…

— Joseph John Thomson

There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I…

— Tim Henman

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a…

— Alan Titchmarsh

I think we all love to watch something we know is going to go catastrophically wrong - the old banana skin syndrome,…

— Sarah Alexander

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out…

— Nick Harkaway

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't…

— Simon Pegg

My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot…

— Tinie Tempah

Seeing the actual, 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of…

— Will Poulter

Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to…

— Vladimir Putin

One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia…

— Christy Clark

I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom…

— Mehdi Hasan

A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good…

— Noam Chomsky

The great thing about WWE is the fact they are branching out and doing more brands. Having this just creates more opportunities…

— Paige

'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

— Moss Hart

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I…

— Brian Cox

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year…

— Eric Bana

It was the British who began the tradition of parliamentary democracy, now emulated all over the world.

— Suella Braverman

As a British woman, I now have the great honour of delivering that project for my constituents in the greatest Parliament on…

— Kemi Badenoch

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

— Austen Chamberlain

At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

— Philip Freneau

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they…

— Daniel Hannan

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

— Adam Lambert

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

— George Vancouver

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

— Billy Squier

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

— Alisher Usmanov

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

— Paddy Chayefsky

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

— Naomie Harris

I'm a fairly traditional British cook, as my partner Cathy doesn't enjoy spicy food, although I like to experiment myself.

— Michael Ball