British Quotes

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

The British government is a murder machine.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

The British have always made terrible parents.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

People think that I live in England and have a British accent.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

The British are so funny.

Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is