British Quote by Alistair Cooke

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

— Martin Freeman

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off…

— Giles Deacon

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

— Anne Reid

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans:…

— Gore Vidal

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get…

— Neil Innes

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a…

— Kayvan Novak

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's…

— Eddie Izzard

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

— Felicity Jones

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense…

— Nicole Scherzinger

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

— John Osborne