922 British Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. Lee Westwood

Good Sense Of Humor Sometimes Humor Sense Seems Over Heads Go Get American Quite Sarcasm British

The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.' Lenny Abrahamson

Character Big Extraordinary Saw Top Frank Kid Charts He Name Him Very Irish Title Britain British

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American. Leonard Slatkin

Music Long Alternate Been American Next British Associated

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

Director Three Married London Seemed Paris Had Countries House Hall Moved Theater Apartment Hollywood Peter Belong British

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English. Lily Cole

I would love to do a British period drama. Lily Collins

Love Drama Would Period British

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it. Linda Colley

Free Changed Way India Sought Govern Did Uprising Viewed British

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism. Linda Colley

History Both Imperialism Always Isolationism Fervent American American History Fierce British

British prime ministers and prime ministers' spouses and children are together becoming ever more like first families. They need to be given sufficient resources and personnel to enable them to carry out their shifting roles efficiently, decently, and safely. Linda Colley

Together First Shifting Resources Out Carry Ministers Given More Prime Prime Ministers Like Safely Enable Becoming Spouses Families Efficiently Roles Children Decently Them Personnel Ever Sufficient British Need

Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently. Linda Colley

India Easy Rather Mass Abysmal Look How However Covered Left Behind Them View Illiteracy Appear Railroads Differently Levels British

The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa. Linda Colley

Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised. Linda Colley

Life Sometimes Military Enormous Though Has-Been Leaving Been Domestic America Influence Ordering Aside Military Bases Even Bases British

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians - and its Foreign Office - have found it hard to adjust to the loss, not so much of onetime colonies as of the global clout the colonies once afforded. Linda Colley

People Politicians British People Once Adjust Critics Colonies Argue Wrong Mass Empire Global Foreign Still Loss Office Mourn Suspect Afforded Clout Much Hard Found Britain British

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom. Linda Colley

Freedom History You Yourself Minority Own Else Extraordinary Find Eccentric Someone Pursuit Outside Step Mainstream Also Narrow Permits Subject Intellectually America While Toes Your Naturally Treading Britain British

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European. Linda Colley

More Know Any European Even British

Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs. Linda Colley

Rights Rest Those Possesses Systematic Has-Been Significant Kingdom Constitutional Attempt Since Powers Executive Although Limits Been Texts Governs England Momentous United United Kingdom British

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

Validation Poetic Never Sought Taste Ever British

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

Best Class Conflict People Think Out City London Between Global Understand Being Newspaper Rooted Product International Stands Niche British

I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again. Lisa Lutz

Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there. Little Simz

Stay London Because Represent Just Just Because Mean Necessarily British Core

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