Quotes About British

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Ser homossexual num ambiente britânico formal e legalmente avesso ao que era visto como um desvio da norma levou sem dúvida Forster a dar ao corpo seu devido valor. Não escondeu suas preferências sexuais dos amigos próximos mas nunca as assumiu publicamente; manteve um longo relacionamento com um homem casado embora ele mesmo, Forster... vivesse sozinho — ou com a mãe.

All the big talk of Democracy and Human Rights seemed as spurious as the glib guarantees with which some manufacturers underwrite their products in the confident hope that they will never be challenged. The Briton at home takes no responsibility for the protestations and promises made in his name by British officials overseas.

Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of the British way of life.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Any kind of discourse which has a flavour of the British ruling class, so powerful is ancestral memory, must be strenuously avoided.

There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection....

Having our own ambassador making these statements about Karimov is acutely embarrassing. It's bad for British business interests, it's bad for the stability in the region. I mean, he sends back these dossiers full of stories of what Karimov's security forces have supposed to have done, he sends them to the foreign office or whatever, he sends them directly to us, I mean does he think I'm going to read it, does he imagine that I'm interested in this stuff?

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander – British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

What Abbott represented was completely at odds with everything I would enjoy writing about: blue telephone boxes, beaches and fortifications, seagulls, miniature steak and kidney puddings, ginger-haired taxi drivers.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe. Public opinion and, crucially, the cabinet was deeply divided on whether to intervene or stay out.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

The very idea of a Party of God, Hizbollah, puts the fear of God into British hearts.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.