Quotes of: British Keyword

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

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it.

Jaime Murray

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

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

The Queen of the Damned

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Time for a Tiger

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.

David Miliband

There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.

Lionel Barber

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

Tom Odell

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

Leslie Caron

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

Linda Chavez

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

Paul Bettany

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

Paul Harris

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

Pauline Neville-Jones

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Raymond Burr

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Stephen Leacock

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Sidney Poitier