British Quotes
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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.
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Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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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.
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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.
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I would rather be British than just.
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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.
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
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I would pay good money for a British accent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
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The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
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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.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
