British Quotes
1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors
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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that…
— Brian Eno
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America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still…
— Lily Cole
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British…
— Martin Parr
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Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.
— Gina Bellman
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I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially…
— Tom Odell
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I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.
— Monika Chiang
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There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and…
— Mario Testino
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Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external…
— Monica Crowley
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British comedy fans go crazy.
— Chris Lilley
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I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
— Chris Lilley
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At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the…
— Mario Testino
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Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the…
— Unknown Author
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British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean…
— Megan Boone
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British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
— Tom Ford
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Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part…
— Norman Wisdom
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals,…
— Sebastian Faulks
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I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
— Amit Bhatia
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use…
— Brendan I. Koerner
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of…
— F. Sionil Jose
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