Top 1200 British Columbia Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

As far as filming for TV goes, I like to go where the food is definitely of interest to British people.

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

I love Monty Python, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB