British Quotes
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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.
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I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
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The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
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I do feel a certain love from the British public.
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From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.
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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
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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.
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You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.
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Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.
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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
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British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
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To arms, to arms! The British are coming, the British are coming!
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It was part of your religion to hate the British.
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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
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I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
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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
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
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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.
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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
