British Quote by Nancy Kress

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded…

— Sean Covey

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

— Jandy Nelson

American accents often sound much more confident than British ones.

— Rebecca Front

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

— Miriam Margolyes

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as…

— Kenneth Grahame

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent.

— Curtis Blaydes

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

— Stephen Fry

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that…

— Stephen Fry

“Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...”

— Simon Boylan

“But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.”

— Margaret MacMillan

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

— Donald Rumsfeld

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

— Philip Sidney