921 British Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie

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Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics. Marquis de Lafayette

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It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism. Marquis de Lafayette

Patriotism First Important Year Defense Valor Colonel Maryland Were Expect American Gallant Fort Lessons Received British

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. Michael Caine

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British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. Monica Bellucci

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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. Naomi Wolf

Women Battle Destruction Goddess Drew Troops Cruel Idea Gentle Hindu Female Audiences Were Male Led Women Are Historically Human Depicted Romans Fantasy Her Innately Recent British

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. Nigel Short

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. Norm Dicks

Later Aircraft Over French Industry Years Years Ago German Commercial Spanish Companies European Large Founded Compete British

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British. Riley Keough

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. Ronald Reagan

Hope Time Good Leadership People Strong Evil Rally British People Bit Triumph Given Over Know Forces Ultimately Little Little Bit British

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. Samuel P. Huntington

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity. Terry Eagleton

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

Morality Know Fits Public Ridiculous Spectacle British

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. Queen Elizabeth II

Constitution Will Puzzling Always Been British

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. A. E. van Vogt

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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.' Aasif Mandvi

Myself Good Daily Me Free Consider Ways Kind Indian See Objectively Good Thing Because Been Lot American Different Experiences Places Show Different Places Daily Show Mongrel Thing Things British

My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction. Adam Christopher

Character Science Age Writing Own Setting State Seven Atomic My Own More Written Almost Empire Empire State Perhaps Because Science Fiction Limited Itself Very Than American Wonders Just Where Fiction Stories Story Flavor Far Universality British Needed

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck - served by men in white jackets. Adam Curtis

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Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which would later become BP - and its principal owner, the British government, conspired to destroy democracy and install a western-controlled regime in Iran. Adam Curtis

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