British Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Museums, People, Blame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Eyebrows, United States, States

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• We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

  Pauline Hanson

  Icons, Share, Lost

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

  Margot Kidder

  Crazy, Tabloids, Being Pretty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Isle, Monotony

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• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

  Tony Benn

  House, Politics, Politician

  In Observer 4 Feb. 1962

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  Thomas Hardy

  Practice, Principles, Constitution

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

  Winston Churchill

  Humorous, Ocean, Mountain

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

  Tony Blair

  Special, World, Earth

  "Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech". Times Online, May 10, 2007.

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• [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

  James Joyce

  Persistence, Independence, Apathy

  "Daniel Defoe". Book by James Joyce, translated from Italian manuscript and edited by Joseph Prescott, pp. 24-25, 1964.

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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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• Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

  Bernard Levin

  Blow, Men, Noses

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• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Decision, Faces

  The Guns of August ch. 9 (1962)

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• I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Government, People, Giving

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