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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

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

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. — Tony Blair

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

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

Xander and Ethan are sex gods ALL THE WAY. - Nonna8359 — Scarlett Avery

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it? — Greg Proops

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. — Dave Mustaine

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. — Sebastian Coe

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

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

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

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. — John Graves Simcoe

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross

Oh , God, the British Have landed, Haven't they? — Alice Clayton

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

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that. — Jeremy Irvine

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

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. — Mahatma Gandhi

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other. — Julian Casablancas

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society. — Lord Mountbatten

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. — Mike Myers

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

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

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

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. — Jonathan Ive

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 love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. — Craig Brown

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS. — Steven Moffat

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. — Martin McGuinness

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. — Freddie Mercury

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female. — Ray Floyd

I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British-Louis — One Direction

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique. — Grigor Dimitrov

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell

was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. — Neil Gaiman

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics — Clare Short

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL! — John Irving

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