British Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

  Peter Ustinov

  Enemy, Good Enemy

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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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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• I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Thinking, Becoming, Becoming More

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• I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

  David Cameron

  People, Passengers, Drivers

  "Conservative party conference: David Cameron fails to inspire with flop speech" by Bob Roberts, www.mirror.co.uk. October 7, 2010.

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• Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

  Stephen Leacock

  Laughing, Way, Economy

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• The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Drunk, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

  Winston Churchill

  Respect, Unique, People

  Hansard 10 June 1941, col. 152

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• It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

  Paul Bettany

  Naughty, Play, America

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

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Player, Needs

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• The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

  Ann Macbeth

  Merchants

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• Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

  Francis Kilvert

  Animal, Tourists, Offensive

  W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Martin McGuinness

  Military, Car, Facts

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• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

  Karel Reisz

  Cinema, Dull, Conformist

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• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Reflection, Quality, Television

  Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Sidney Poitier

  Father, Men, Race

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• When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

  Louis Leakey

  Father, Years, Kenya

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• My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

  Claire Forlani

  Italian, Years, Parent

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• I would rather be British than just.

  Ian Paisley

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• The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

  Hugh Casson

  Love Is, Architecture, Permanence

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• 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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