British famous quotes

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Shopping #United States #British

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

#I Like You #Thinking #British

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

#Cynicism #Californians #British

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

#British #Polite #Interfere

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Strange #British #Enjoy

I am Scottish. I am also British.
-- Andy Murray

#Scottish #British

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
-- Ann Macbeth

#British

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina

#Men #Causes #British

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
-- Arthur Balfour

#Looks #Scottish #British

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#Eyebrows #United States #British

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

#Auntie #Pittsburgh #British

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
-- Austin Mahone

#Fans #Intense #British

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

#Believe #Greek #British

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
-- Beck

#British #Surreal

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
-- Ben Nicholson

#Culture #Satire #British

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
-- Billy Joel

#Arabia #Lawrence Of Arabia #British

I grew up with British rock.
-- Bryan Adams

#Rocks #Grew Up #British

I support British designers as much as I can.
-- Cat Deeley

#Support #Designer #British

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

#Magazines #British #Adore

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

#Proud #Firsts #British

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Arrogance #British #Tricks

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
-- Charles James Fox

#Europe #Unlimited #British

I give no more paroles to British officers.
-- Christopher Gadsden

#Giving #Parole #British

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
-- Claire Forlani

#Play #Excited #British

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
-- Clive James

#Kgb #Secret #British

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

#Catholic #Problem #British

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
-- David Cameron

#People #British #Passengers

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 Cameron

#Europe #Want #British

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum
-- David Cameron

#People #Should #British

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
-- David Eagleman

#Literature #British #University

British people are surprised that I'm British!
-- David Harewood

#People #British

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

#Unusual #Paint #British

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
-- David Miliband

#Shields #British #Committed

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
-- Diane Wakoski

#Wish #Language #British

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

#Lasts #British #Heard

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
-- Dick Spring

#Government #Accepted #British

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
-- Donald Pleasence

#Directors #British #Approach

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".
-- Eddie Mair

#Government #British #Sinn Fein

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
-- Ernest Shackleton

#Sea #British #Expeditions

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

#Engineering #Projects #British

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

#Nuisance #Want #British

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 Oz

#Years #Nine #British

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
-- Frederick Forsyth

#Becoming #British #Dictatorship

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

#Population #British #Labour

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

#Taken #Robbing #British

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

#Feet #Feelings #British

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Racist #British

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
-- Glynis Johns

#Play #Majority #British

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Writing #British

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Writing #London #British

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.
-- Gunther Rall

#Fighting #Accepting #British

I really appreciate the British part of my family.
-- Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#Appreciate #My Family #British

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.
-- Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#Too Much #British #Comment

However British you may be, I am more British still.
-- Henry James

#May #British #Stills

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

#Catholic #British #Homosexual

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
-- Hugh Casson

#Love Is #Architecture #British

I would rather be British than just.
-- Ian Paisley

#British

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
-- Imelda Marcos

#Queens #British

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
-- Ivor Novello

#Girl #British #Temperament

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

#Winning #Records #British

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
-- James Connolly

#Republican #British #Ireland

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
-- James Earl Jones

#Film #British

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
-- Jay Kay

#Country #Proud #British

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

#Actors #British #Wells

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
-- Jo Durie

#Personality #Court #British

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 Corigliano

#England #Ridiculous #British

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.
-- John Graves Simcoe

#Soldier #British

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
-- John Lahr

#Generations #Talent #British

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

#Hands #British #Behalf

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
-- John Major

#British #Very Good

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
-- John Oliver

#Empires #Drains #British

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
-- John Oliver

#Pessimism #British

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

#Cute #Accents #British

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
-- Joss Stone

#Unfair #British

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
-- Kanye West

#Band #British #Rhythm

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
-- Karel Reisz

#Cinema #Dull #British

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
-- Ken Livingstone

#Judging #World #British

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

#Men #Vote #British

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
-- Leonard Slatkin

#Long #Next #British

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

#Tolerance #Population #British

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#President #Computer #British

I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
-- Louis Tomlinson

#Fall #Tears #British

The biggest looters are the British Museum.
-- Lowkey

#Museums #British

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
-- Lucy Powell

#Jobs #Economy #British

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
-- Marilyn French

#Rain #England #British

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
-- Martin Fleischmann

#Thinking #British

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
-- Martin Fleischmann

#Thinking #Becoming #British

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

#British #Organized

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

#Way #British #Caricatures

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Gun #Doors #British

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Government #Needs #British

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
-- Matthew Macfadyen

#Actors #British

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
-- Melvyn Bragg

#British #Blokes

The British public sees with blinding clarity.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Clarity #British

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

#War #Crazy #British

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.
-- Nancy Kress

#Intelligent #Said #British

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British,
-- Natalie Massenet

#British

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

#Thinking #America #British

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
-- Neville Marriner

#Art #Giving #British

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
-- Nicholas Rodger

#Water #Dominance #British