Quotes About British

I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.

I'm incredibly excited to be joining the 'Doctor Who' family. It's such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn't be prouder to call the TARDIS my home.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

Brussels,' as Richard Weight puts it, 'replaced Brixton as the whipping boy of British nationalists.

When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.

I like to feel comfortable. I love British brands, and I enjoy dressing in a way that makes me feel good.

The British fans, they are very festive; they support their people.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.