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Quotes About British

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.
~ Wolfgang Schauble
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
~ E. L. James
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.
~ Linda Colley
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
~ Alice Temperley
I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'
~ Doug Liman
I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.
~ William Regal
Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
~ Jayma Mays
There is so much talent in British fashion: a real cookie jar of different aesthetics with designers like Mary Katrantzou, Erdem, Christopher Kane, J. W. Anderson, and Simone Rocha.
~ Emilia Wickstead
'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the first American drama to do that.
~ Jed Mercurio
I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.
~ MyAnna Buring
Even though I was not allowed American newspapers or news magazines, we could obtain, fairly regularly, Pravda and the French Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and, occasionally, the American Worker and the British Daily Worker. Of the last two, I preferred the British version.
~ Francis Gary Powers
Today, I live in France. We have been made utterly welcome by our French neighbours, who, if the subject arises, can only scratch their heads in utter bemusement at why we would want to leave this union. I try to explain, but in order to really understand, you have to be British. Or rather, not British, but a certain English sort – that peculiar, insular, self-aggrandising mentality that cannot see past the White Cliffs of Kent. I have never understood that,
~ Frank Cottrell Boyce
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
~ Frank Portman
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
~ Franklin P. Jones
They were all copies of originals made by the British Admiralty, and the best in the world.
~ Frederick Forsyth
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
~ Claire Forlani
I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.
~ Brian Posehn
After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in baggy shorts making jokes about being white trash, and British punk had morphed into dogmatic crusties yelling at everyone about everything.
~ Gavin McInnes
The colour of a British wood in autumn is predominantly yellow. There are relatively few European trees which have red leaves in the autumn. But there are splashes of crimson or rust-red colours from a few indigenous trees, like the rowan, as well as from introduced species, like the North American red oak.
~ Alice Roberts
Loading a hollowed-out loaf of bread with steak, mushrooms, shallots, and a fat dose of horseradish yields a kind of portable beef Wellington - the pinnacle of British cuisine reinvented as a trail snack.
~ Jonathan Miles
I myself identify as British-Nigerian, and I'm also gay, and I'm also a young adult in London making music. All of things can co-exist as one.
~ MNEK
I've felt very proud of British artists from a young age.
~ Vick Hope
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal - big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head - they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.
~ Steven Wilson
For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world.
~ Gurinder Chadha