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I love London, I love the British people. -- Yohan Blake
Americans assume all British people have at least one servant. -- Martin Freeman
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair. -- George Osborne
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there. -- Paris Hilton
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. -- Tom Allen
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. -- David Cameron
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. -- John Major
Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. -- George Osborne
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer. -- George Osborne
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun. -- Jim Broadbent
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. -- Nick Clegg
I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private. -- Julianne Moore
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. -- Stafford Cripps
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people. -- John Oliver
If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide. -- David Cameron
I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support. -- George Papandreou
I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government. -- Nick Clegg
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. -- Emily Blunt
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal. -- Maurice Druon
I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come. -- Vince Cable
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people. -- Gretchen Rubin
By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters? -- Lloyd Dorfman
The British people are the boss. -- Tony Blair
British people are surprised that I'm British! -- David Harewood
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! -- Winston Churchill
Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage -- Tony Abbott
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. -- George Mikes
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying. -- Tim Harford
British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death -- John Oliver
People think that I live in England and have a British accent. -- Rich Fulcher
I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people. -- Robert Vaughn
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British. -- Jason Statham
No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum -- David Cameron
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. -- Steve Earle
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in. -- Anna Soubry
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it -- Simon Jenkins
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. -- Theresa May
I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth. -- Verne Troyer
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. -- Shashi Tharoor
Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. -- Callan McAuliffe
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. -- Christopher Hitchens
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. -- Adam Lambert
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food. -- Fergus Henderson
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'. -- Wayne Knight
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me. -- Alfonso Cuaron
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British. -- Simon Cowell
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people. -- Charles Dance
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. -- George Mikes
I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true. -- Sean Lennon
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea. -- Rachel Hawkins
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. -- Fay Weldon
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. -- James Robertson
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. -- Michael Gove
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything -- Rachel Weisz
It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache. -- Bob Ainsworth
If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain. -- Craig Ferguson
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. -- Thomas Beecham
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. -- Emma Watson
The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. -- Felicity Jones
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born. -- Benedict Wong
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone. -- Ken Loach
The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation. -- Nigel Lawson
I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. -- Tony Blair
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. -- Paul Bettany
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. -- Winston Churchill
British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth Â£21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. -- Natalie Massenet
Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian. -- Rich Fulcher
You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype. -- Stephen Malkmus
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them. -- Thomas Bulfinch
I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. -- Jacques Chirac
I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The British accent does open doors. -- Ryan Cartwright
Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect. -- Phil Collins
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life. -- Clive James
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general. -- Ellie Goulding
The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law. -- Michael Gove
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large. -- Maajid Nawaz
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions. -- Ai Weiwei
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
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed. -- Christopher Gadsden
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. -- William Hague
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. -- Winston Churchill
Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street. -- Bernie Ecclestone
In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people. -- Gordon Brown
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do. -- Martin Henderson
I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. -- Carmen Ejogo
We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right. -- Steve Blake
I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign, I believe in them, I will deliver them. -- Michael Gove
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. -- Eileen Atkins
They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels. -- Michael Gove
They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all. -- Winston Churchill
Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair] -- Menzies Campbell
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see. -- Tina Turner
Together, America and the United Kingdom are a beacon for prosperity and the rule of law. That is why the United States respects the sovereignty of the British people and their right of self-determination. -- Donald Trump
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face. -- Raza Jaffrey
The will of the British people must now be put into effect as quickly as possible. Under Article 50 of the EU Treaty the UK must leave the European Union within two years at the latest. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people. -- Iain Duncan Smith

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