British Quotes

British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

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

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

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

The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

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

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

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

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

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

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

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

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

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

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

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

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

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

No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.