British Quotes · Page 45

My father was actually born here in South London, so he's very Western and British.

— Griff

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

— Sue Perkins

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

— Kurt Cobain

Eating some of those British people's food in 'Celebrity Big Brother' had me turning green and gave me some food poisoning.

— Spencer Pratt

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always…

— Winston Churchill

“Ah. And then you kill him." "No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}”

— Rick Yancey

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

— Jimmy Carr

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

— Winston Churchill

Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and…

— John Adams

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British…

— Heston Blumenthal

There's something about the British that we go for someone who seems nice and has good manners and seems at ease thanks…

— Jean Marsh

One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an…

— David Moyes

I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where…

— Julie Andrews

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength…

— Irvine Welsh

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot…

— Matt Robinson

When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series.…

— Lucy Griffiths

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so…

— Andy Murray

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention…

— Mel Gussow

He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one…

— Sebastian Barry

The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game - getting visiting American singers on…

— Benny Hill

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist…

— Adam Hochschild

Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in…

— Julien Temple

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region…

— Scott Anderson

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong.…

— Hugh Grant

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads,…

— Emo Philips

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.

— Francois Hollande

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

— Ricky Gervais

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

— Libba Bray

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

— Bradley Wiggins

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I…

— Paul Kagame

“Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.”

— Catherine Tate

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of…

— Thomas Jefferson

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is…

— John Hurt

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The majority of our clients are British. They want to wear things time and time again.

— Emilia Wickstead