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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
Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.
— John Higgins
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
I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
— Claire Forlani
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
My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
— Kurt Cobain
I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.
— Pamela Druckerman
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
— Rufus Sewell
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
— Charles Stross
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
— T. S. Eliot
Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana
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'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
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
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
— Kate Winslet
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
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
— Paddy Ashdown
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
— Antony Beevor
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
— Tracey Ullman
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
— Nick Offerman
My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.
— Philip Pullman
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. — Dan Brown
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. — Dan Brown
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
— James Earl Jones
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
Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.
— Maria Sharapova
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
— Benedict Wong
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
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
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
— Nathan Lane
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
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
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
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
— Margot Kidder
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
It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
— Lucy Powell
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 feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
— John McAfee
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
— Adam Lambert
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
Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
— Terry Teachout
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
— Thein Sein
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
— Joseph Jacobs
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
— Billy Joel
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
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 see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.
— Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
— Robert Gottlieb
Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony.
— Aporva Kala
The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
— James Connolly
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
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