British Quotes
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I love British bands.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so.
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
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We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
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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.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
