Brits Quotes

• Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

  Piers Morgan

  Thinking, Advantage, Accents

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

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• Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Church, Lasts, Actors

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• My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.

  Bobby Sands

  Home, Heart, Night

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• I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Long, Whimsy, Sense Of Humor

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• Whoa," Brit breathed, handing my drink back to me. "That was..." "Really hot," Jacob finished. "I thought you two were going to rip off each other's clothes and start making babies right here on the dirty, beer covered floor. Like I was going to have to start charging admission for what was about to go down.

  J. Lynn

  Baby, Rip, Dirty

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• You do know him, so that's a lame excuse." It was a lame excuse, but it was the best I had. "How do you really ever truly know someone?" Brit smacked her hands to her cheeks and she shook her head. "He's not a serial killer." "Speaking of serial killers, everyone thought Ted Bundy was a really charming, handsome man. And look how he turned out. Psycho." Jacob stared at me. "He's not Ted Bundy.

  J. Lynn

  Men, Hands, Ted Bundy

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• We also told her you weren't a serial killer," Brit interjected. Cam nodded. "That's a glowing recommendation. Hey, at least he's not a serial killer. I'm going to put that on my Facebook profile.

  J. Lynn

  Glowing, Serial Killer, Hey

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• He's not the relationship kind or so I hear." "And do you want a relationship?" I asked her. "No." She laughed, dabbing her fry. "But I have a feeling with someone like him, you get one taste and you will always want more." "Sort of like crack?" Jacob suggested. "Or Cheetos," Brit supplied.

  J. Lynn

  Feelings, Cracks, Want

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• What are you up to?” “Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied. “That so reminds me of Harry Potter,” Brit said, sighing. “I need a re-read.” We all turned to her. Two bright spots appeared in her cheeks as she tossed her blonde hair back. “What? I’m not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.

  J. Lynn

  Hair, Two, Blonde

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• I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, then The Dress needs to have The Belt, and a complementary but not overly-matching bag must be found which works with not only the correct hosiery, but with something to throw over yourself if you become chilly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Clothes, Over You

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  John Oliver

  Sound, Vowels, London

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• I feel non-stop Brit shame!

  John Oliver

  Shame, Feels, Non Stop

  "A very funny Englishman in New York". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2011.

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• If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, White, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Cynical, Hey

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

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• If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

  Brit Hume

  People, Alarms, Add

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• I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

  Helen Mirren

  Fighting, Thinking, Wimps

  "Deep down, I'm a wimp" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2002.

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• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Home, College

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• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Greek, British

  News Conference By President Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 4, 2009.

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Dinner, Parks

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

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• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  Pat Robertson

  Running, Thinking, America

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• I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.

  Kelly Rowland

  Heart

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• I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

  Kelly Rowland

  Honest, Periods, Feels

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• I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

  Robbie Williams

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Awards, Would Be

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