British Quotes

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.