British Quotes

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My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and… — Tori Amos
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent… — Julie Andrews
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax… — Harold Wilson
We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. — Winston Churchill
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. — Duke of Wellington
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion. — Steve Winwood
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around.… — Damon Hill
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which… — Damon Hill
The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts… — Doc Hastings
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to… — Cornel West
When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater. — Jack Nicklaus
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our… — George C. Marshall
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The… — Adolf Hitler
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any… — Adolf Hitler
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. — Charley Reese
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good. — Erwin Rommel
To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over. — Lee Trevino

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