British Quotes
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
Debra Dean -
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
Raza Jaffrey
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The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
Ernest Bevin -
When I saw the newspaper headline "Gas Chamber Expert Captured" and an American lieutenant explained it to me, I was pale in amazement. How can they say such things about me? I told you I was only in charge of the Intelligence Service from 1943 on. The British even admitted that they tried to assassinate me because of that, not because of having anything to do with atrocities, you can be sure of that.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner -
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 -
Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.
Rod Stewart -
I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
Robert Webb -
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair
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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.
Nigel Benn -
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Nick Park -
I do feel a certain love from the British public.
Rod Stewart -
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
Rod Stewart -
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
Cate Blanchett -
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
Monica Crowley
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch -
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
Stephen Fry -
My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
Heather Brooke -
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
David Bowie -
As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.
Theresa May -
I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."
Gary Jarman