British Quotes

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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one… — Parminder Nagra
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,… — George Mason
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be… — Patrick Henry
Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. — Bill Maher
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. — Karl Marx
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils,… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British… — John Terraine
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. — Robert Morley
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an… — Eva Ibbotson
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy. — Bob Hope
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. — Virginia Graham
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective,… — Paul Hasluck
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which… — Erwin Rommel
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to… — Hannah More
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly,… — Paddy Ashdown
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his… — Gordon Brown
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe… — Chris Huhne
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade… — Edgar Mitchell
All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British… — Ludwig von Mises
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it — Simon Jenkins
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition… — Thomas Jefferson
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis

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