British people Quote by Holly Bourne

“Why oh why, I thought, are we British brought up to not show emotions? Stiff upper lip and all that. Right now I could…

— Fiona Fridd

“No. We want you to write it down—to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan’t have…

— C.S. Lewis

“Hell, yes. Keep calm and carry on. God save the Queen. Think of England.”

— Jana Aston

“Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact…

— Rachel Van Dyken

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“The British are coming.”

— Paul Revere

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

“Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.”

— Robert Henri

“Once more for Britain,” I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was…

— Courtney Brandt

“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. We are not here to do what has already been done.”

— Basic Books

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

“Oh, come on. You eye-hump him all through British History.”

— Cynthia Hand