British Quotes

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

I love London, I love the British people.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

The British are so funny.

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

The British have always made terrible parents.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

I support British designers as much as I can.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

I love the British.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I love British bands.

I'm proud to be British.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.