British Quotes · Page 46

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

— Trinny Woodall

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

— Simon Cowell

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

— David Morrissey

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern…

— Doris Lessing

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

— Michael Gove

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

— David Moyes

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves,…

— Stafford Cripps

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they…

— James Purefoy

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have…

— Wendell Willkie

I started racing at club level, then the Scottish championship, then the British championship, then the European, then the Worlds. I went…

— Susie Wolff

We should pass legislation to restrict social housing to people who have been resident in the U.K. for at least five years,…

— Nick Boles

We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed…

— Eustace Mullins

I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of…

— Tom Stoppard

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight…

— Edward Rutherfurd

No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term…

— Gerry Adams

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen…

— Derek Walcott

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I…

— Henry Beard

The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not…

— James G. Frazer

Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?"…

— Richelle Mead

Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign…

— Dominic Cummings

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British…

— Philip French

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

— George Mikes

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape…

— Clive Lewis

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything…

— Cobie Smulders

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me…

— RuPaul

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

— Lucy Powell

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

Love Actually' is the most Marmite of all British films. Does it make you want to cry, or be copiously sick with…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

— James Blunt

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

— Graham Chapman

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

— Claire Forlani

My goal in boxing was to be Southern Area champion, might have a shot at the British, might own my own terraced…

— Nigel Benn

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

— Tim Roth

There is no doubt that the European Indoors is an important event for British athletes.

— Colin Jackson

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

— Lee Westwood

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

— Ernest Bevin

You can tell I'm a very, very British person, but I've kept my roots quite strong. I still speak Farsi.

— Omid Djalili