British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. — Andrew Eldritch
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the… — Richard Louv
In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America. — Simon Newcomb
I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a… — David Millar
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. — George Mikes
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. — George Mikes
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. — Nick Park
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British. — Victoria Beckham
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... — David Mazzucchelli
Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then… — Victoria Wood
When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to… — Anthony Minghella
If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill… — Bhagat Singh
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of… — Osbert Sitwell
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together… — John Keats
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.… — A. E. Housman
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular… — June Jordan
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,… — John Stuart Mill
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem… — Michael O'Leary
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits… — Eric Clapton
I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. — Woody Allen
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's… — James Wolfe

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