Quotes of: British-people Keyword

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

Tracey Ullman

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Josh Hartnett

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Stephen Kinzer

This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three o'clock in the morning and make people leave their ho...

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

Prince Feisal: Well, General, I will leave you. Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make upon my people and their weakness, and the need to keep them weak in the British interest... and the French interest too, of course. We must not forget the F...

Lawrence of Arabia

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

British Bulldog

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


British Bulldog

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

British Bulldog

I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’


British Bulldog

A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

British Bulldog

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

British Bulldog

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.

British Bulldog

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

British Bulldog

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

British Bulldog

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

British Bulldog

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

British Bulldog

Ah. And then you kill him." "No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

The Isle of Blood

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

My Merlin Awakening

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.

Saving Persephone