British Quotes

• The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Player, Needs

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• There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, British Navy, Cannibalism

  "Character: Sir John Cunningham". "Monty Python's Flying Circus", TV Series (1969–1974), "The War Against Pornography", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Funny, Dumb, Spy

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

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• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Ridiculous, Morality, Fit

  "On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Kids, Long

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Records, Preoccupation

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. February 23, 2018.

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• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Garden, Kitchen

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, British Soldiers, Citizens

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• I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Literature

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• A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, America, People

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• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  'Hansard' 24 October 1950, col. 2705

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• The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Literature, Becoming, Dictatorship

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• Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Ordinary, Essentials, Noble

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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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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• I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

  Eileen Atkins

  Thinking, People, Way

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

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• Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

  Linda Chavez

  Tolerance, Population, Literature

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• I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Strange, Advocating, Enjoy

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• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

  Simon Newcomb

  America, Eclipse Of The Sun, Solar Eclipse

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Knows

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• The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

  Alexis Korner

  Emotional, Bars, Attention

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• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

  Duncan Sheik

  Doe, Records, Woods

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• The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

  Ben Nicholson

  Culture, Satire

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