British Quotes - Page 9

• We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

  Vince Cable

  Economy Today, Growth, Balance

  "Vince Cable reveals £1bn backing for business bank to help small firms" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

  Michael Caine

  Heartbroken, Home, Thinking

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• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Guy

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• I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

  David Cameron

  Europe, Want, Britain

  "David Cameron speech: UK and the EU". www.bbc.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

  David Cameron

  Europe, Play, Vision

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• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

  David Cameron

  Character, Independent, Emotional

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• If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

  David Cameron

  People, Unions, Way

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• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British Elle. It was April 14, 1986.

  Naomi Campbell

  Fashion, Jobs, New Orleans

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

  Robert Carlyle

  Actors, Know Me, Knows

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

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• In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

  John le Carre

  Pigs, Years, People

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• British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

  Lee Child

  Stories, Psychological, Crime

  "Sacked at 40 and on the scrapheap. Now Brummie tops US book charts" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory

  Thomas MacDonagh

  Heart, Pride, Brain

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• My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

  Kathy Reichs

  Book, Successful, Numbers

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fall, Tears, Showers

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• I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Years, Play

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• It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, World, Slavery

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African.

  Zola Budd

  Rain, Moving, Thinking

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• American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Organized, Has Beens

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• I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

  Herbert

  Catholic, Homosexual, Jew

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• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Mother, Iroquois, Indian

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

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Feelings, Acting

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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Twelve, Events

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• There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

  Joseph Hume

  Corn, Proof, Port

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