British Quotes
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We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themselves and their culture in terms of addressing the new age.
Charlie Parker
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image
Michael York
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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
Evan Davis
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I do not wish disaster to British arms.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
Ernest Bevin
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It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.
Dave Whelan
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In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.
Michael Smith
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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
Paul Revere
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If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
Rebecca Hall
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
George Mikes
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When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
Robert Webb
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I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.
Ivan Rakitić
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The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
Rod Stewart
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To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
Estelle Freedman
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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
Ben Nicholson
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I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
Ben Aaronovitch
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To arms, to arms! The British are coming, the British are coming!
Paul Revere
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British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
William Randolph Hearst
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
Ezra Stiles
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I do feel a certain love from the British public.
Rod Stewart
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I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
Estelle