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- Nov 07, 2020
British Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
- Comedian
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- Nov 07, 2020
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
- Compare
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
- Nov 07, 2020
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.
- Italians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
- Nov 07, 2020
The British are so funny.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
- American Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Skins'. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of Conservative Budgets is to empower the British people and revitalise the country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain.
- Intern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
- British Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
- Nov 07, 2020
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020