British Quotes
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
Nathan Lane
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Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
Natalie Massenet
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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
Alan Rickman
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
Kate Williams
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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
Andrew Marr
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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.
Jackson Browne
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Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Andy Gibb
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
Karen Elson
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I would rather be British than just.
Ian Paisley
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
William Hague
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
Banks
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke
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August first, 1834, the British freed its slaves in the West Indies. It was the beginning of slavery’s end in Great Britain, and abolitionists everywhere celebrated.
Beverly Jenkins
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I would pay good money for a British accent.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
William E. Gladstone
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Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.
Graham Coxon Blur
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The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.
Michael Hastings
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I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to sing as well.
Millie Bobby Brown
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The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.
Nigel Benn
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Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.
Vladimir Putin
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
George Bernard Shaw