Top 1200 British Invasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

I work with so many levels of British law enforcement, I never know who is working for whom.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.

Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

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

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

It changed my life, but the best gift I have ever been given was the acceptance of the British public.

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

I am proud to be the first British champion, and headlining MSG is a testament to all the hard work.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.

It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

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

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should be.

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

Australians and New Zealanders don't talk about Gallipoli in terms of invasion. I started talking about it and using that word and at first there were a few people who were getting upset in the same way that in any country, if you work for a newspaper you know exactly the dude you can go and talk to get a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to something to do with the military.

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can.

Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

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