British Quotes

• The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

  Ivor Novello

  Suffering, Actors, Emotion

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• The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

  Dick Spring

  Government, Accepted, Reports

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• British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Actors, Wells, Behave

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• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Historical, Consciousness

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• His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Doctors, Sea

  Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.

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• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Paris, House

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• I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

  Joan Collins

  Queens, Nice, Drama

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, White

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• My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Safe

  "If you enjoyed those 'Peter Kay' one-liners in your inbox, they were probably written by Emo Philips" by James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2010.

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• And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Grateful, Years, Two

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

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Class, People, Film

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• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  Damon Hill

  Being Single, Athlete, Thinking

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• We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

  Doc Hastings

  Justice, Allies, World

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• To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Men, World

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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

  Robert Morley

  Long, Tourism, Tourists

  "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.

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• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

  Nicholas Lea

  Book, Museums, Pages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Theatre, Actors

  "I think I'm quite good at my job' by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Workout, Arrogance, Tricks

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

  Simon Pegg

  Stars, Tvs, Profile

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• I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, London, Subjects

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• The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

  Alexis Korner

  Winter, Movement, Development

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