British Quotes · Page 48

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

— Romesh Ranganathan

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

— Adam Lambert

Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

— Arlene Phillips

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being…

— Sadiq Khan

As far as filming for TV goes, I like to go where the food is definitely of interest to British people.

— Rick Stein

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

— Irvine Welsh

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

— Scott Adsit

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

— Jonathan Bailey

The British deployed the men of their Indian army on the European battlefield from October 1914; the decision being made within days…

— David Olusoga

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been…

— Evan Davis

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want…

— John F. Kennedy

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a…

— Richard Branson

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just…

— Zadie Smith

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century…

— Adam Savage

The most important funder of the British Brexit campaign had odd Russian contacts. So did some cabinet ministers in Poland's supposedly anti-Russian,…

— Anne Applebaum

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is…

— Parminder Nagra

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of…

— James Otis

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was…

— George Mason

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the…

— Sean Lemass

I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always…

— Gary Neville

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Wrestling in general is a lot more Americanized, to use that term loosely. Back when I started, there were still a few…

— Pete Dunne

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like…

— Olivia De Havilland

I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When…

— J. K. Rowling

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

— Ellsworth Huntington

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

— Laurel Van Ness

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

— Noam Chomsky

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I…

— Tony Harrison

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,

— Michel Chossudovsky

British Bombs' is a tune I wrote about the hypocrisy of the British arms trade.

— Declan McKenna

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

— William Monahan

I like to adapt some of the traditional dishes from my childhood from both NZ and Samoa using British ingredients and European…

— Monica Galetti

The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come…

— Andrea Leadsom

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and…

— Barbara Tuchman

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

— Nigel Farage

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

— Kesha

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

— Ian Paisley

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

— Mahatma Gandhi