Quotes of: British Keyword

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

Salman Rushdie

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Martin Freeman

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

Verne Troyer

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

George A. Romero

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually was. The British Quarterly, deliberately sitting up trouble, speculated that a time might come when a monkey could pro...

Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin

Cambiando de postura en el sillín, Adam pensó que la forma en que su humilde vida seguía los moldes de la literatura tenía algo como de metempsicosis. ¿O quizá -se preguntó, hurgándose la nariz- era consecuencia de estudiar tan detenidamente ...

The British Museum Is Falling Down

Mayor of Colleville: [meeting the British on the beach] Welcome; welcome, friends. I brought champagne, but I do know think it will be enough for all of you. Lord Lovat: Quite alright. We have a pressing engagement; the war. Move inland. [to his bagp...

The Longest Day

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure....

Abraham Lincoln

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog. 

British Bulldog

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

Harry Lloyd

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Doris Lessing

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

Eric Clapton

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

Natalie Massenet

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

Peter Capaldi

Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.

Ryan Cartwright

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Richard Flanagan

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

Steve Merrick

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Tim Roth

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

Linton Kwesi Johnson