British Quotes and Sayings
We are in the Premiership of British retailing again.
Stuart Rose
The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.
Tim Henman
An outstanding British political leader with a kind heart and a clear mind.
Tony Benn
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The most conservative man in this world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
Ernest Bevin
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
English culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
Shaun Leane
When the British Open is in Scotland, there’s something special about it. And when it’s at St. Andrews, it’s even greater.
Jack Nicklaus
I am not talking to anyone in the British media – they are all pricks.
Allan Border
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
Graham Chapman
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillan
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn’t.
Stephen Leacock
I’ve always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I’m a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Liz Hurley
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! the British journalist But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
Humbert Wolfe
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John Prescott
Let’s have none of this Tony Blair nonsense. He has cried wolf one too many times with the British public.
Charles Kennedy
His Majesty’s dominions, on which the sun never sets.
Christopher North
If I did take away Silverstone and a British Grand Prix, I’d be seen as a bad guy but that wouldn’t bother me.
Bernie Ecclestone
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
Thomas Day
I wonder when, if ever, the British government will have the sense to propose peace?
Millican Dalton
I always feel nervous for the people we have worked with [on Bafta nights], but it’s always great that there are so many British actors up there. It’s going to be a fun night.
Tessa Ross
The British fans really know hoe to get behind their athletes.
Jason Gardener
I would rather be British than just.
Ian Paisley
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Hugh Casson
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.
Anonymous
Courtesy is not dead – it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
Georges Duhamel
Of all noxious animals, too, 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 maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual’.
Winston Churchill
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.
Winston Churchill
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands.
George Henry Borrow
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 Churchill
The classic formula for success is: “Dress British, Think Yiddish.
Proverb
The British flag has never flown over a more powerful or a more united empire…Never did our voice count for more in the councils of nations; or in determining the future destinies of mankind.
George Nathaniel Carson
I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don’t think Hitler is a fool – he is not going to challenge the British Empire.
David Lloyd George
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
They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are – who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Frederick Forsyth
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueen
The brains of the British have gone soft.
Raymond Blanc
The British – who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it – have nothing to be ashamed of.
Tony Parsons
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Prince Charles
The British won’t fight.
Leopoldo Galtieri
The British people are the boss.
Tony Blair
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
John Osborne
The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.
Lord Beaverbrook
They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent.
Voltaire
I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Winston Churchill
Other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might’.
Evelyn Waugh
The British press hate a winner who’s British. They don’t like any British man to have balls as big as a cow’s like I have.
Nigel Benn
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules; / Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these; / But of all the world’s brave heroes, there’s none that can compare / With the tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the British Grenadier.
Anonymous
Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered on Tony Blair
Sir Menzies Campbell
The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.
Clive James