quotes about British
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
-- Alan Rickman -
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
-- Alex KingstonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
-- Alexander LebedevSource : "Alexander Lebedev profile: ex-KGB agent says he will champion a free press". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. January, 14, 2009.
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
-- Ann Macbeth -
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
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I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
-- Arthur Balfour -
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?" 'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh' 'But she had the acc-' 'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something
-- Audrey Hepburn -
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
-- Austin Mahone -
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
-- Barack Obama -
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
-- Ben Nicholson -
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I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.
-- Cat Deeley -
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
-- Catherine Ashton -
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
-- Catherine Drinker BowenSource : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
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There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
-- Charles James FoxSource : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.
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I give no more paroles to British officers.
-- Christopher Gadsden -
I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
-- Claire Forlani -
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The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
-- Clive James -
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
-- Danny Boyle -
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
-- David Cameron -
I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
-- David CameronSource : "David Cameron speech: UK and the EU". www.bbc.com. January 23, 2013.
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No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum
-- David Cameron -
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
-- David Eagleman -
British people are surprised that I'm British!
-- David Harewood -
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
-- David Hockney -
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I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
-- David MilibandSource : "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
-- Diane Wakoski -
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
-- Dick Gregory -
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
-- Dick Spring -
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Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
-- Donald Pleasence -
Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".
-- Eddie Mair -
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea
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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
-- Evan Davis -
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So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
-- Frank Carson -
I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.
-- Frank OzSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.
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The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
-- Frederick Forsyth -
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
-- George Galloway -
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A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.
-- George Vancouver -
I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
-- Gillian Anderson -
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
-- Glynis Johns -
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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.
-- Gunther Rall -
I really appreciate the British part of my family.
-- Helle Thorning-SchmidtSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.
-- Helle Thorning-SchmidtSource : "Denmark's Thorning-Schmidt heads to Downing Street to meet David Cameron" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
-- Henry James -
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.
-- Herbert -
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
-- Hugh Casson -
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
-- Imelda Marcos -
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
-- Ivor Novello -
My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.
-- Jahangir -
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The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
-- James Connolly -
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
-- James Earl Jones -
Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
-- Jay Kay -
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
-- Jean-Jacques Annaud -
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The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
-- Jo Durie -
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
-- John CoriglianoSource : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.
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The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.
-- John Graves SimcoeSource : John Graves Simcoe (1844). “Simcoe's military journal”, p.15, Рипол Классик
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The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
-- John Lahr -
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Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.
-- John Major -
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
-- John Major -
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
-- John Oliver -
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You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
-- Josh Hartnett -
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
-- Joss Stone -
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
-- Kanye West -
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
-- Karel Reisz -
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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
-- Ken Livingstone -
I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
-- Linda Chavez -
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In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
-- Lord Mountbatten -
I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
-- Louis Tomlinson -
The biggest looters are the British Museum.
-- LowkeySource : Song: Dear England
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It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
-- Lucy PowellSource : "Providing education to age 18 is crucial for Britain" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.
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rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
-- Marilyn French -
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
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I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
-- Martin McGuinness -
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
-- Martin McGuinness -
Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
-- Matthew MacfadyenSource : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
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There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
-- Melvyn Bragg -
The British public sees with blinding clarity.
-- Michael Heseltine -
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.
-- Michael Morpurgo -
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.
-- Nancy KressSource : Nancy Kress (2014). “Yesterday's Kin”, p.9, Tachyon Publications
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I just wear what I like and lots of it is British,
-- Natalie Massenet -
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
-- Naveen Andrews -
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
-- Neville Marriner -
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
-- Nicholas Rodger -