British Quotes · Page 40

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

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

— Nicholas Rodger

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

— Gary Oldman

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

— Ian Brown

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

I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up…

— Nick Moran

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me.…

— John Lydon

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake…

— Neville Chamberlain

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

— Lord Randolph Churchill

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the…

— Nick Clegg

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,…

— George Packer

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising…

— Monty Don

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso…

— Peter York

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at…

— Anonymous

Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,…

— Linda Colley

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and…

— Helen Fielding

“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but…

— Douglas Adams

“But, of course, you might be asking yourself, 'Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don't know! I still don't…

— Caitlin Moran

Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith,…

— Kenny Ausubel

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

— Jean-Marc Vallee

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

— David Soul

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

— James Corden

Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.

— Ted Wheeler

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

— Henry Winkler

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

— William Rees-Mogg

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply…

— David Blunkett

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

— Suella Braverman

“ Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.”

— Julian Fellowes

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

— George Bernard Shaw

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

— Dominic Cummings

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite…

— Tamara Ecclestone

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

— Tim Henman

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

— Bob Hope

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,…

— David Attenborough