British Quotes

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

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

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

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.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.