Top 1200 British Navy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

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

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

They were enormously chic. My father was very chic. My mother was a heavy woman and she wore wonderful, bright colors, and pajamas, but when she was in town or in New York City or in Paris, she would wear navy blue or black. But there was a flamboyance to both of them.

Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

British summers give me a really happy feeling.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

It's in the British nature to go 'Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.'

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not!

I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

I'm not lying in any way, British fans are the best in the world.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

'British Vogue' is a great magazine with a legacy of creativity and innovation.

Brits love a road trip supporting a British fighter.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions.

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

When I was a toddler, my father cut hair in the townhouse we had shared together in Long Beach, California, where Dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The buzz of clippers consistently hummed as he gave fades to his coworkers, my uncles, and my brother, but his clippers were never oiled and plugged in for my head.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.