British Quotes · Page 7

The British public are not children who need protection from the truth.

— Gina Miller

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

— Billy Squier

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

— Tony Benn

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

— Hank Azaria

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I boxed for the British title in my ninth fight.

— James DeGale

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

— Harold MacMillan

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Wait. Stephen Fry is gay?” “Ohmigod, how are you alive?” “I thought he was just British!”

— Alis Franklin

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

— John Lennon

'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the…

— Jed Mercurio

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

— George Osborne

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman…

— Peter Pook

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

— David Olusoga

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could…

— Joe Perry

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too…

— Erich Fromm

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British…

— Menzies Campbell

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the…

— Laurie Graham

This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists…

— George Mikes

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like…

— E. P. Thompson

In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable…

— Rowan Pelling

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you…

— June Jordan

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible…

— Arthur Eddington

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this…

— David Cameron

During the Second Boer War, from 1899 to 1902, Britain was rampantly jingoistic: anyone who opposed the war was cast as a…

— Katharine Viner

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British…

— Muhammad Iqbal

There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British…

— Brendan Rodgers

I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

— John Rocha

I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.

— William Regal

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

— Kevin Spacey

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.

— Ehud Olmert

I've felt very proud of British artists from a young age.

— Vick Hope

It's very British of me, but I'll always choose beer over anything else.

— Francesca Hayward

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

— Andrew Neil