Top 1200 British People Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.
British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.
I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.
Too close and unthinking an allegiance to Washington has sometimes got British governments into trouble.
You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
A lot of British players had more potential than me. But they slipped away.
I work with so many levels of British law enforcement, I never know who is working for whom.
Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.
Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'
My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.
I am proud to be the first British champion, and headlining MSG is a testament to all the hard work.
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.
My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.
I don't know much about British TV. Actually me, I'm looking more at American ones.
I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.
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.
Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.
Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
The Great British summer has many qualities, but unfortunately guaranteed warm weather is not one of them.
I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.
It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.
