British Quotes
1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors
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British teams bring me good luck.
— Andrea Pirlo
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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or…
— Jonah Goldberg
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We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we…
— Steve Blake
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to…
— Scott Anderson
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and…
— Harold Pinter
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It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
— Paul Bettany
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were…
— William Alexander
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I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
— Andy Gibb
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I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the…
— Jacques Chirac
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
— Arthur Eddington
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My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type…
— Bob Hope
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Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans…
— Carl Froch
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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion…
— Winston Churchill
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of…
— Winston Churchill
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One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be…
— Winston Churchill
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered…
— Winston Churchill
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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or…
— Ferdinand Mount
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as…
— W. Averell Harriman
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The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
— James Connolly
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Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large…
— Norm Dicks
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In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export…
— George Mikes
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Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain…
— Stafford Cripps
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can…
— Dan Miller
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