British Quotes

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. View quote
Thomas Hardy
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. View quote
Ernest Bevin
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
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. View quote
Winston Churchill
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. View quote
Robert Morley
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. View quote
François Hollande
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England. View quote
George Mikes
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. (Oscar Wilde)
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. View quote
Barack Obama
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. View quote
Winston Churchill
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people. View quote
John Major
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier. And clearly you British have an advantage. You were crazy beforehand. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. View quote
Simon Pegg
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. (Gustav Stresemann)
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. View quote
Ann Macbeth
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. View quote
Diane Wakoski
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. View quote
Linda Chavez
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. View quote
Lorna Luft