British Quotes - Page 29

• If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Believe, Men, Museums

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• The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

  John Cleese

  Jesus, Talking, Ideas

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• When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

  Anthony Trollope

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “The Landleaguers”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

  Prince Charles

  Running, Country, Food

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• 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

  People, Done, Harmony

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• I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.

  Sharon Stone

  Men, Facts, Planning

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• When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Unique, Government, People

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.17, Random House

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• There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

  H. H. Asquith

  Illustration, House, Parliament

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• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  William E. Gladstone

  Constitution, Parliament, Working It

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• When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

  Alain Prost

  Team, Tadpoles, Frogs

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, Robins, British Politics

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• 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

  Flirting, People, The End Of The Day

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• I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.

  Sarah Waters

  War, Book, Character

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• I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.

  Allan Border

  Media, Talking, Not Talking

  "Maddest Ashes Stories: Ten of the best tales from England, Australia and the biggest cricketing rivalry" by Gershon Portnoi, www.mirror.co.uk. July 9, 2013.

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• It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

  Richard Ingrams

  Strength, Art, Anger

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• Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

  Oswald Mosley

  Wake Up, Empires, Epitaph

  Oswald Mosley (1957). “Mosley: the facts”

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• 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

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Work, Museums, Appreciate

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• There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Blokes

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• [Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Country, Holiday, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.

  Michael Shannon

  New York, Home, Southern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

  Nick Offerman

  Play, Navy, Three

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Military, War, Father

  Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.

  Melanie

  Real, Three, Half

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