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.
Jackson Browne
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The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.
Frederick Forsyth
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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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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
Maajid Nawaz
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
Billy Joel
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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 listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
Angelina Jolie
