British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in… — David Letterman
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. — John Hancock
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here… — Errol Flynn
People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found… — David Letterman
I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course.… — John Varvatos
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in… — Will Rogers
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was… — Heston Blumenthal
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not… — Lala Lajpat Rai
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of… — Mike Harding
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift… — Angelina Jolie
I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and… — Ian Mckellen
I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the… — Cher Lloyd
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There… — George Galloway
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger. — George Galloway
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race. — Winston Churchill
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and… — Winston Churchill
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks… — Winston Churchill
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever… — Winston Churchill
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2)… — Barry Lynes

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