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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 English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result.
— Lavie Tidhar
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
— Luke Evans
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
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
— Nicholas Rodger
The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.
— Robert Gallucci
was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement.
— Neil Gaiman
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
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
— Ernest Bevin
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
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
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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 Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
— Clare Short
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
— John Oliver
Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
— David Walliams
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
— Francis Kilvert
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
— George Mikes
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
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
— Ken Livingstone
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
— Arthur L. Herman
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
— Norman Jewison
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
— Janine Di Giovanni
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
— George Brown, Baron George-Brown
The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.
— Jay Parini
The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.
— Tom Lehman
The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
— James Connolly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
— Robert Gottlieb
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 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
--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
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
— Joseph Jacobs
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
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
— T. S. Eliot