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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. -- Thomas Hardy
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. -- Tony Benn
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. -- David Cameron
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. -- Michael Caine
The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. -- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. -- Peter Ustinov
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. -- Margaret Thatcher
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. -- Oscar Wilde
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. -- Stephen Leacock
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. -- Harold MacMillan
I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home. -- Gary Glitter
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. -- Ernest Bevin
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. -- Arthur Eddington
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. -- Roland Joffe
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair. -- Andy Gibb
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
British women can't cook. -- Prince Philip
The British are so funny. -- Rose Byrne
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania. -- Billy Joel
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse. -- John Oliver
I love British female directors lately. -- John Cameron Mitchell
British teams bring me good luck. -- Andrea Pirlo
I love London and British women. -- Matthew Morrison
The British people are the boss. -- Tony Blair
I grew up with British rock. -- Bryan Adams
I am Scottish. I am also British. -- Andy Murray
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy. -- Robert Lacey
The British government is a murder machine, -- Peter King
The biggest looters are the British Museum. -- Lowkey
British people are surprised that I'm British! -- David Harewood
The British public sees with blinding clarity. -- Michael Heseltine
British girls are as temperamental as Americans. -- Ivor Novello
The British have always made terrible parents. -- Rachel Cusk
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. -- Mick Jagger
I don't have a good British accent. -- Serena Williams
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. -- Ryan Reynolds
I'm just an enormous British comedy fan. -- Paul Feig
I'm quite a fan of British designers. -- Tinie Tempah
I would rather be British than just. -- Ian Paisley
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric. -- Paloma Faith
I'd be quite excited to play somebody British. -- Claire Forlani
Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers". -- Eddie Mair
I do not wish disaster to British arms. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. -- Virginia Graham
I give no more paroles to British officers. -- Christopher Gadsden
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. -- Nancy Kress
You are part of our Great British family. -- Boris Johnson
I love London, I love the British people. -- Yohan Blake
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. -- Karel Reisz
Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British -- Ben Mitchell
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society. -- Lord Mountbatten
A British villain never loses their sense of humour. -- Tom Hooper
I really appreciate the British part of my family. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship. -- Frederick Forsyth
I am now a commander of the British Empire. -- Kevin Spacey
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British. -- Benedict Wong
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. -- Ann Macbeth
I think, British food, it's had a bad rap. -- April Bloomfield
The British love permanence more than they love beauty. -- Hugh Casson
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal. -- Beck
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood! -- Olivia De Havilland
I support British designers as much as I can. -- Cat Deeley
I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really. -- Robert Webb
My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing. -- Sean Lennon
Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent. -- Andie MacDowell
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. -- Benjamin Disraeli
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. -- Karl Marx
Americans assume all British people have at least one servant. -- Martin Freeman
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. -- Peter Capaldi
The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. -- John Graves Simcoe
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either. -- Tom Paulin
Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish -- Robin Cook
Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist. -- Vincent Tan
My mind may be American but my heart is British. -- T. S. Eliot
Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis -- Ian Jack
However British you may be, I am more British still. -- Henry James
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. -- Simon Pegg
It was part of your religion to hate the British. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
I do feel a certain love from the British public. -- Rod Stewart
What? Don't British women know how to use their knees? -- Shannon Hale
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. -- Giorgio Moroder
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor. -- Rod Stewart
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British. -- Natalie Massenet
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! -- Winston Churchill
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. -- Julian Fellowes
It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors. -- Ryan Cartwright
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. -- James Joyce
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion. -- Ronnie Wood
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. -- Salman Rushdie
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'. -- Neville Cardus
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. -- Queen Elizabeth II
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. -- George Mikes
Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage -- Tony Abbott
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." -- Hank Azaria
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. -- Tracey Ullman
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. -- Noam Chomsky
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion." -- Ronnie Wood
We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders. -- Kurt Vonnegut
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British. -- Rod Stewart
I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. -- George Osborne
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British. -- Victoria Beckham
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators. -- Horatio Nelson
I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern. -- Parminder Nagra
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. -- William Hague
I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. -- Woody Allen
Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British. -- Bob Hope
rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else. -- Marilyn French
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay! -- Rudyard Kipling
I'm not going to make general comments about the British press. -- Kevin Spacey
Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. -- Matthew Macfadyen
During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper. -- Jim Pattison
My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled. -- Jahangir
My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled. -- Jahangir
I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller. -- Emma Roberts
The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset. -- John Scarlett
We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists. -- Tony Blair

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