British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All… — Kurt Vonnegut
My mind may be American but my heart is British. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of… — Charlaine Harris
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. — Shashi Tharoor
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly… — L.A. Meyer
You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're… — Shannon Hale
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. — Anne Rice
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in… — John le Carre
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax… — Dan Brown
He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary.… — Cassandra Clare
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not.… — Matt Haig
When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit… — Robert Fisk
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making… — Haruki Murakami
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy… — Michael Morpurgo
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people,… — Eric Weiner
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.… — Heinrich Harrer
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be… — Sarah Strohmeyer
Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?" 'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh' 'But she had the acc-' 'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something — Audrey Hepburn
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile… — Neal Stephenson
His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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