British Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jahangir

  Winning, Records, Unbeaten

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• I give no more paroles to British officers.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Giving, Parole, Officers

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

  Claire Forlani

  Play, Excited

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• You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
  But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Funny, Men, America

  The Uncelestial City (1930)

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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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• 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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• British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Temperament

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

  Diane Wakoski

  Wish, Language, American Poetry

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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• ... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

  Franz Halder

  Military, Historical, Empires

  Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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