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British Quotes

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

White Lust Side Empire British Most

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Man Hat Vote Will Wear British

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Myself Think You British English

Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs.

Limits Rest Rights Kingdom British

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Maureen Johnson

Day Kid Two Single Seen British

I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

American Person Kind Little British

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

British Going Press Make General

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

Michael Ignatieff

Feel Person Assume British Must Who

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

Support Intellectual Property British

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Stanley Hauerwas

More Assume British Religious Than

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.

Day Wrong Newspaper Neck British

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

American More British Than Audiences

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Say Navy Mean British Absolutely

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

American Never Soldiers British Been

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

Music Never Write Hype Own British

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Proud Living California British Very

I'd like to think we can make a nice, glowing change to British dressing.

Emilia Wickstead

Change Think Nice Dressing British

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

Comedy Watching Up British TV Grew

I love the British.

Love British I Love

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Michael Winterbottom

Child Story You Location British

Sometimes people say to me, 'Ah, you're not really Spanish; you're British.'

Cesar Azpilicueta

People Me You Sometimes Say British

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Will Economy British Jobs Unskilled

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

Time People Know British English

I have a British and an American passport.

Joshua Oppenheimer

American Passport British

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