British Quotes

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...

It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.

He looks like a horse in a man costume!

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talentsdon’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

Youir're doing this wrong.

What did the soup say to the tea plate? "You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear, "He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

Awareness, like wine, is always better for the vintage.--Hugo Anstead

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you, ” said Chase.

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect, ” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.

One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...