Quotes About British

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

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.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party.

It's amazing to be nominated for two Brits, and I'm in great company. I'm not a politician out blagging votes, but if people like what I do and feel like giving me a vote for British Breakthrough, imagine how mint it would be if I actually won.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.

It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.

So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and the detective walks around and tells them where they were that night, and you see the flashbacks.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

British period drama is always seen as kind of perfect and beautiful and lovely, but I don't think subcultures have been shone a light on like 'Peaky Blinders' has done.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US - the world wants what Britain has to sell.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

I love London and British women.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.