British Quotes · Page 49

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

— Trish Regan

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part…

— Laura Carmichael

I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.

— Nigel Farage

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

— Martin Freeman

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

— Christopher Moore

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

— Rory Bremner

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

— Rufus Sewell

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

— Nigel Lythgoe

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think…

— Iain Duncan Smith

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the…

— Rhys Darby

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of…

— Phil Collins

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' -…

— Doug Liman

[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed…

— Marina and the Diamonds

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is…

— Jaime Murray

There are people who are alive because of British aid, people who can walk and see because of our aid, and children…

— Penny Mordaunt

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a…

— Anonymous

I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or…

— Julian Assange

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more…

— Bill Bryson

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people…

— Winston Churchill

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S.…

— Noam Chomsky

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .…

— Winston Churchill

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;…

— Anonymous

British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.

— Ed Davey

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the…

— George C. Marshall

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

— Mahathir Mohamad

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy.…

— Bradley Walsh

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

— Rita Ora

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

— Jeremy Kyle

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no…

— Ronald Blythe

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain…

— Nick Park

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

— Lionel Barber

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

— Joe Lycett

It's so surreal to join 'Great British Menu,' because I'm a massive fan of the show.

— Andi Oliver

The Great British Bake Off' has rapidly evolved into one of the nation's favourite TV shows.

— John Whaite

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

— Jojo Moyes

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be…

— Estelle

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

— Callum Smith