British Quotes
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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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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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
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Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.
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I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.
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With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
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The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
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We British have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
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If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
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It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.
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Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
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People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.
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I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.
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We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
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I love 'Skins'. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it.
