British Quotes

British people are surprised that I'm British!

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

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.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.

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.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

Whether people watch Doctor Who or not over here, everybody knows about it. It's a British icon, it's so part of the nation.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

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.

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

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.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

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.

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.