British Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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.
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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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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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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
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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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We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.
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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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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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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.
