British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities… — Rick Larsen
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh. — Elizabeth Meriwether
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. — George Vancouver
The British government believes we must be resolved to disarming Saddam Hussein. It must be done before the terror weapons he possesses can be used… — Geoff Hoon
As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations,… — George J. Mitchell
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be… — Robert Trout
Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast… — Gerry Adams
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'-… — Gerry Adams
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. — James Connolly
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for… — Cecil Rhodes
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril… — Winston Churchill
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. — Philip Freneau
At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine. — Fuzzy Zoeller
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped… — Marcy Kaptur
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of… — Unknown Author
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the… — Kathy Reichs
I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British. — Louis Tomlinson
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It… — Helen Dunmore
I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot… — Fred Couples
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from… — Henry Charles Carey
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are… — Henry Charles Carey
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell… — Zola Budd
Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea. — Anwar al-Awlaki

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