Quotes About British

Although Lord Dunmore, the governor of Virginia, was the only British official to promise emancipation, many enslaved people throughout the South assumed that if they offered their services to the British they would be set free. To some extent this was true.

With limited space and supplies on their ships, British captains did not take on every man, woman, or child who came their way. But they did aid and encourage the runaways however they could.

Despite these gross exaggerations, even the most conservative estimates by modern scholars suggest that well over 10,000 slaves fled to the British in search of freedom, while the total number of blacks who served in the Continental Army was only about 5,000—and many of these, perhaps most, were freeman, not slaves.

Officially, blacks who labored for the British received wages; in reality, they received little or nothing after deductions were made for their provisions

Slaves who had escaped from loyalist masters were returned upon demand. Other refugees who were not deemed of use by the army were put to work on plantations owned by British officers or sold to the West Indies. If short of supplies, the British would sometimes trade back slaves for provisions. When the royal fleet retreated from Port Royal in 1780, Major General Alexander Leslie refused to take with him several hundred African Americans who had dared to escape and were requesting asylum

The combined British, Hessian, Canadian, and loyalist forces besieging the fort came to about 650; the Indians matched that number, effectively doubling the strength of the king's army.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out there doing that.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down to the humblest cottage, a supply of fresh herbs would have been considered essential.

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.