British Quotes · Page 43

I never watched British television. I bought myself a satellite for French, Spanish and Portuguese TV, instead.

— Robert Pires

There is always going to be competition from other countries and different venues who want to host a race, but the British…

— Christian Horner

British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I…

— Sam Heughan

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is…

— Jamie Bamber

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

— Damian Lewis

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

— Dick Spring

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

— Gerry Adams

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

— Bill Maher

I try to avoid British tourists who moan, 'That were a terrible flight, luv, the seats were awful, did you see how…

— Michaela Strachan

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

— Steven Morrissey

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember…

— John Andre

The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

A power of recall that depended solely on the electorate and was not subject to unnecessary hurdles of Parliamentary procedures would show…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

There's a lot of places where you can go to understand and to learn what it is that British nationalists believe and…

— Alice Levine

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to…

— Kurt Student

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and…

— Jamie Oliver

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's…

— Indira Gandhi

In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,…

— Doris Lessing

I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety…

— Stanley Baldwin

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When…

— Marisha Pessl

It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans]…

— Manfred Rommel

This [British] dossier is still considered to be mostly uncorroborated but it's overall allegation is that the Trump folks knew, the [Donald]…

— Rachel Maddow

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

— Charles James Fox

I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in…

— Rishi Sunak

Why are British actors revered in America? Because it's a place of excellence. This is where we are trained to be excellent.…

— Paterson Joseph

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I…

— Winston Churchill

I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U.

— Jose Angel Gurria

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional…

— David Olusoga

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music…

— Ellie Goulding

I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

— Ryan Reynolds

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

— Lala Lajpat Rai

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

— Martin Fleischmann

It's in the British nature to go 'Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.'

— Rosie Jones

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

— Arthur Eddington

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted…

— Annie Dillard

With no variety in course prices, it is hard for British students to shop around in the U.K. The government should give…

— Nick Boles

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated…

— Mahatma Gandhi