British Quotes

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

I really like older British guys - I don't think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying "I love you" or "You hurt me" or emotional stuff like that.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

I love British female directors lately.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]