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British Quotes

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

Tamara Ecclestone

Think She Emotional British I Think

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Democracy Rest Europe British Must

The British have always made terrible parents.

Parents Always British Terrible Made

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Mariella Frostrup

Good Personality British Idea Full

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Art Myself Thinking Find British

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Culture British Eccentric Celebrated

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

People Servant Assume British Least

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Me Think Intelligent British Keep

You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

Natalie Massenet

Fashion Impact Internet You British

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

Culture Always Up British Like Felt

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

Joke Take British Twist Something

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Nandan Nilekani

City Thought New British Because

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

Performance Two Years British Even

Most British tapas bars aren't bars at all. They're restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a bit different from the Spanish way of doing things, in which tapas is an adjunct to the drinks and the general vibe.

John Lanchester

Doing Wrong Nothing Way British

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Find Independent Hard Big British

Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently.

View Easy Look India Left British

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Father Time Mission Now British He

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

Family Humour British Dry Sense

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

Leonard Slatkin

Music American Long Next British

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

Unique Country Place British Closer

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Gentleman Ball Tell British Us Once

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

I Am Now Empire British Commander

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Say Test British Controversy Because

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I Am British Only Who Writer Am

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