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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. — Shashi Tharoor

British monarchy exists not to exercise power but to keep other people from having the power. — Ketevan Gogelia

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

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born. — Benedict Wong

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'. — Wayne Knight

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while. — Claire Forlani

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. — Winston S. Churchill

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. — David Cameron

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum — David Cameron

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them. — Alasdair MacIntyre

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi

It sounded wrong rolling off his tongue, but still elegant, somehow. Like a British person cussing. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer. — Theresa May

We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses. — Natalie Massenet

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest. — Tobias Hill

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth. — Verne Troyer

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

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. — William Hague

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. — Monica Bellucci

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

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth Â£21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. — Natalie Massenet

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. — George Mikes

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. — Kristin Scott Thomas

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone. — Ken Loach

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. — Tom Allen

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true. — Sean Lennon

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds. — Maajid Nawaz

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. — John Major

She ... ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter ... — Nancy Mitford

British people are surprised that I'm British! — David Harewood

The English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human — Charles Dickens

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways. — Dustin Johnson

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. — George Mikes

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. — Theresa May

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. — Gyorgy Ligeti

It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache. — Bob Ainsworth

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people. — Charles Dance

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

Some people just don't find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him. — Charlotte Fallowfield

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. — Callan McAuliffe

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. — George Osborne

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people. — Mahatma Gandhi

But because it seldom happens people forget that a caucus in the British parliamentary system can remove a leader, including a prime minister. — Chantal Hebert

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. — Winston Churchill

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. — Morrissey

The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi — Eric Weiner

The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! — Winston Churchill

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage — Tony Abbott

Abdul knew this Gandhi as the one who cared for poor people, who liked Muslims as well as Hindus, who took on the British and made India free. — Katherine Boo

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. — Stephen Malkmus

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. — Michael Gove

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in. — Anna Soubry

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

If liberal government was to be saved, [the British people of 1940] would have to be the ones to save it. — Brooke C. Stoddard

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. — James Robertson

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. — Christopher Hitchens

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. — Carmen Ejogo

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea. — Rachel Hawkins

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Morrissey

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people. — Gordon Brown

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect. — Phil Collins

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. — Tony Blair

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh. — Elizabeth Meriwether

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair. — George Osborne

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general. — Ellie Goulding

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there. — Paris Hilton

Whenever Gansey talked to British people about America, they always seemed to think he meant Texas. — Maggie Stiefvater

Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. — Ryan Cartwright

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying. — Tim Harford

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

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

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

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

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

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. — Steve Earle

Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We — Holly Bourne

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. — Paul Bettany

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant. — Martin Freeman

What, are you queuing now? Just how British are you people? Don't just stand in line! Kill somebody! — Jonathan Stroud

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it — Simon Jenkins

The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language. — George Bernard Shaw

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick? — James A. Michener

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain. — Craig Ferguson

Said, and we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. In — Jojo Moyes

I love London, I love the British people. — Yohan Blake

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British. — Simon Cowell

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. — Adam Lambert

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer. — George Osborne

Theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in — Charles Dickens

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything — Rachel Weisz

No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice ... No wonder people take advantage of me. — Alfonso Cuaron

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death — John Oliver

I am completely opposed to the British National Party; I couldn't possibly support people who find fluorescent yellow flyers appealing. — Robert Clark

we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. — Jojo Moyes