British Quotes
1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors
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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
— George Osborne
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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
— George Osborne
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I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
— George Osborne
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I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.
— George Osborne
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style…
— Camille Paglia
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In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures,…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war…
— Shimon Peres
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My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are…
— Emo Philips
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It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
— Lucy Powell
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No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was…
— Lynn Redgrave
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I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
— Ryan Reynolds
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I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.
— Nicole Richie
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I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.
— Emma Roberts
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
— Salman Rushdie
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in…
— Salman Rushdie
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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,…
— Jerry Saltz
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I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
— David Sedaris
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness…
— Will Self
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What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
— Will Self
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers.…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent…
— Wilbur Smith
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