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Quotes About British

The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
We performed 'Road of Resistance' at O2 Academy Brixton in London for the first time in the fall of 2014. I still remember how the British audience sang this song with us although it was a world premiere. In other words, the song 'Road of Resistance' really propelled us to move forward.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
~ Robert Trout
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
~ John Oliver
Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
~ Vincent Tan
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
~ Heather Brooke
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
~ Clare Short
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
~ Eric Clapton
I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
~ Jessica Ennis-Hill
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
~ Charles Dance
I support British designers as much as I can.
~ Cat Deeley
There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.
~ Peter Morgan
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
~ Frederick Forsyth
I like the differences between American and British television dramas.
~ Jed Mercurio
Yeah I feel like British wrestling deserves a bigger chance and everyone will see that when it's on the WWE Network. People will realise not just in England, but in all the different countries here, there is a lot of talent.
~ Pete Dunne
'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.
~ Tobias Hill
Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
~ Peter Milligan
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
~ Walter Kirn
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
~ Rupert Murdoch
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
~ Donald Sutherland
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
~ Geoff Mulgan
A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.
~ Antonia Thomas
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
~ Bill Bryson