British Quotes

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Let valour end my life!

I love London, I love the British people.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.