British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it… — Eileen Atkins
I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. — Martin Fleischmann
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. — Martin Fleischmann
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. — Martin Fleischmann
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. — Martin Fleischmann
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians,… — Herbert
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. — Rachel Blanchard
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive,… — Ivor Novello
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that… — Martin Caidin
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English… — Joseph Hume
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for… — Clark Kerr
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be… — Lee Kuan Yew
I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us — Lee Kuan Yew
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people… — Lee Kuan Yew
My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British. — Tamara Ecclestone
I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline,… — Jessica Ennis
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. — Linda Chavez
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask… — John T. Flynn
Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere. — Jay Kay
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection… — Jay Kay
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just… — Andrew Eldritch

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