Best 390 quotes in «british quotes» category

In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

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

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

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

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

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

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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

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

Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

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

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

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.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.