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A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here. — Bernard Cornwell

I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it. — Matthew Norman

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

It was a typically British birth ... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward ... I came out in sympathy. — Bob Hope

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. — Jamie Bamber

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. — Sophie Okonedo

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. — Luke Evans

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property. — James Dyson

Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. — Yotam Ottolenghi

The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry. — Jeff Barry

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. — Alain Prost

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December. — Pamela Druckerman

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food. — Fergus Henderson

Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do. — Theresa May

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. — Virginia Graham

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either. — Tom Paulin

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. — Martin Fleischmann

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence

Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled — E.L. James

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! — Austin Butler

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! — Stephen Richards

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. — A.E. Van Vogt

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair. — Lily Cole

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all ... Dare I say it? Pessimistic. — Max Irons

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well. — Laura Carmichael

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis — Ian Jack

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. — Stephen Rodrick

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian. — Amit Bhatia

The British people are the boss. — Tony Blair

I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced "vitamin" the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants. — Robyn Schneider

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland — James Connolly

The Chinese call it woo
The French les brumes
The British
Fog
L A
Smog
Heaven
Cellar Door — Jack Kerouac

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. — Christopher Moore

I love the British. — David Mamet

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted. — Sarah Hall

The British census of Palestine in 1922 recorded 84,000 Jews and 670,000 Arabs, of whom 71,000 were Christian, most of the remainder being Muslim. — Lawrence Wright

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I — E.R. Braithwaite

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born. — Heather Brooke

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. — Ernest Bevin

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day. — Donna Jo Napoli

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest. — Tony Blair

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. — Angelina Jolie

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie. — Cameron Diaz

Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I — Bill Bryson

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel. — Ed Speleers

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. — Matthew Macfadyen

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. — Nancy Kress

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other. — Douglas Booth

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped. — Curtis LeMay

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. — Nathan Lane

Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely. — Richard Happer

My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British. — Bob Hope

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. — Adam Lambert

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries. — John McAfee

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation. — Nigel Lawson

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British. — Jason Statham

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. — Lucy Powell

The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. — George Orwell

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. — Margot Kidder

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. — Kunal Nayyar

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. — Emma Watson

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same. — Michael Caine

I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over. — Miranda July

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. — Quentin Crisp

My mind may be American but my heart is British. — T. S. Eliot

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. — John Osborne

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine Di Giovanni

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. — Paddy Ashdown

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL! — John Irving

British teams bring me good luck. — Andrea Pirlo

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful. — Martin Freeman

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. — John Major

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch. — Frankie Boyle

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over. — Lee Trevino

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. — John Oliver

A British villain never loses their sense of humour. — Tom Hooper

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor. — Evan Osnos

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. — Dick Spring

Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. — Jean Rhys

Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony. — Aporva Kala

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. — Robert Gottlieb

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money. — JJ Feild

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat. — Francois Hollande

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania. — Billy Joel

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. — Thein Sein