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British Quotes
Most Famous British Quotes of All Time!
Genuine affection for London and its people comes through in some reflections, alongside sharper critiques of how colonial trade shaped entire regions abroad. The pursuit of ivory once drove major decisions that permanently altered ecosystems overseas, a history explored in our Britain quotes.
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We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.
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I'm proud to be British.
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I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
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My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.
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The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.
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Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
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I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.
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The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
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In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
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When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
Media coverage doesn't always escape criticism, with some describing certain press coverage as carrying an uncomfortable edge. Others express a clear wish for deeper regional involvement in Europe rather than stepping back. Read more in our British Empire, British Government, and Britons quotes.