British Quotes

• Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • American
  • Fool
  • Accent

• I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• 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
  • Why
  • British
  • Asshole

• 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
  • Independent
  • Find
  • British

• The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • World
  • Rest
  • Happens

• 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
  • American
  • English
  • Stock

• 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
  • Together
  • Man
  • Band

• 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
  • America
  • Romance
  • Towns

• 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
  • Fall
  • Sleep
  • Tradition

• I would rather be British than just.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • British
  • Rather

• At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • British
  • Commonwealth
  • White Nation

• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • American
  • Enthusiasm
  • Vulgarity

• 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
  • People
  • Instinct
  • Embarrassed

• I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

  

  Banks
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Thinks

• 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
  • Amazing
  • Favorite
  • Incredible

• I would pay good money for a British accent.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Good
  • Money
  • Pay

• 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
  • Slaves
  • Celebrated
  • Abolitionists

• 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
  • America
  • Military
  • Pride

• 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
  • Kind
  • Able
  • Wave

• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Constitution
  • British
  • Parliament

• I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Fall
  • Tears
  • Falling Down

• 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
  • Winner
  • Balls
  • British

• If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • British
  • Atom Bomb
  • Esed

• The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Strong
  • Taken
  • Content

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