British Quotes - Page 4

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Nasty, Bosnians, Said

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

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• I give no more paroles to British officers.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Giving, Parole, Officers

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• There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

  Ninette de Valois

  Ballet, Influence, Wonderful

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• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

  Mohammed Omar

  Fire, America, United States

  "Mullah Omar Quoted as Saying U.S. Is Doomed", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2002.

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• I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Philosophy, Students, Youth

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• Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

  Graham Coxon

  Differences, Able, Kind

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• There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

  Tim Roth

  Acceptance, Kind, Film

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• I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

  Claire Forlani

  Play, Excited

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• My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

  Jahangir

  Winning, Records, Unbeaten

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• I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Eyebrows, Actors, Should

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Science, Years, Fiction

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• British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

  Rory Bremner

  Moving, Target, British Politics

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• I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Order, Empires

  Speech at Lord Mayor's luncheon, London, 10 Nov. 1942

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• As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

  Ronald Blythe

  Church, Helping, Bathroom

  'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

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• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Age, Enlightenment, Half

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Political, Politics, Constitution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

  Diane Wakoski

  Wish, Language, American Poetry

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• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

  George Henry Borrow

  Country, Islands, World

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• I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

  John Corigliano

  England, Ridiculous, Mediocre

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, People, Singers

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• There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

  Denis Kearney

  Chinese, Borders, Mexico

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• The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  America, Three, Coast

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  James Larkin

  Fighting, Men, Race

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