British Quotes - Page 11

• I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

  Jacques Chirac

  Friendship, Compassion, People

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• My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

  Bob Hope

  Blood, One Line, Facts

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• Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, Fans

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• If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

  Winston Churchill

  Decay, Empires, Process

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Evil, India

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Eye, Fighting

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• It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Grief, Watches, Empires

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Transition, Transformation, Said

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Republican, Ireland

  "James Connolly: Selected Writings".

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• Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Airbus, Company

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• In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Agreement, Effort

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• In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

  Dan Miller

  Thinking, Alaska, Working Together

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• If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

  Wendell Willkie

  Power, Europe, Events

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• British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, Men, Clothes

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• A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Bankers, Rich

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• A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Independence, England

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• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  Brian Eno

  Educational, Believe, Character

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• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  Michael King

  Strong, Children, Home

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• That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sea, Names, Ideas

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• I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Validation, Taste, Poetic

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• Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

  Nancy Kress

  Intelligent, Said

  Nancy Kress (2014). “Yesterday's Kin”, p.9, Tachyon Publications

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• There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

  Stephen Fry

  Morality, Fit

  "Stephen Fry: Public anger over MPs’ expenses is ‘revolting’" by Jessica Geen, www.pinknews.co.uk. May 22, 2009.

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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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