British Quotes

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

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.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

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

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

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

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

The will of the British people must now be put into effect as quickly as possible. Under Article 50 of the EU Treaty the UK must leave the European Union within two years at the latest.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

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

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.