Quotes of: British-press Keyword

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Antony Beevor

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

John Major

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

British Bulldog

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind. 

British Bulldog

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

Trinny Woodall

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Jay Kay

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.

Arthur Potts Dawson

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Jim Broadbent

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

Sophie Okonedo

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Natalie Massenet

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.

Neve McIntosh

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Nick Park

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

Rachel Bilson

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Rachel Blanchard

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Robert Carlyle

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Stanley Hauerwas

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Steve Yzerman

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Tom Allen

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

Tina Fey

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Kevin Brownlow

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Gerry Adams