British Quotes
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.
No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.
I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.
British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.
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'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.
British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.
If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.
On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.
When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.
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.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.