British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the… — Neville Chamberlain
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America… — Arthur Henderson
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards… — William Hull
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die… — John Andre
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the… — Mark Thomas
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. — George A. Romero
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right… — Stockwell Day
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of… — Alan Lomax
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily… — Samuel P. Huntington
It was part of your religion to hate the British. — Rebecca Harding Davis
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a… — Joseph Hume
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. — Tom Allen
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge… — Paul Harris
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. — William Falconer
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads. — Graeme Murphy
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. — Luke Ford
Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig… — Charlotte Church
What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from… — Pete Townshend
I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because,… — Anthony Holden
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to… — Neil Innes
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India,… — Robert Trout
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain,… — Robert Trout
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible… — Kurt Student
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the… — Kurt Student

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