British Quotes

1274 British quotes by 897 unique authors

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. — George W. Bush
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. — Barbara Tuchman
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as… — V. S. Pritchett
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave… — Boris Johnson
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and… — Martin McGuinness
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. — Martin McGuinness
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of… — Martin McGuinness
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result… — Mercy Otis Warren
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,… — Thomas Jefferson
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the… — Benjamin Franklin
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--… — Paul Revere
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control… — Bobby Sands
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that… — John Hume
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha
Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. — Thom Yorke
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me… — Philip Pullman
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB — Clive James
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. — Clive James
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an… — Nelson Mandela
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. — Winston Churchill
When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had… — James Keller
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents… — A. E. van Vogt
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw

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