British Quotes
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On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.
If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown
I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
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To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.
Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!
