Quotes with british

  • I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
  • You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
  • Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • Bill Bryson All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes America must not be allowed to pick out the eyes of the British Empire.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Alistair Cooke As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Arthur Scargill Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Brenda Blethyn Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Barack Obama I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
    At a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 4 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
    Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bhagat Singh If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
    As quoted in Awakening Indians to India
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Benedict Wong In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Bill Alexander Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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