Quotes About British

Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.

When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

The British pretended, and perhaps some of them even believed, that the establishment of a national home for the Jews could be carried out without hurting the Arabs.

Across the city, people quoted a prophecy the Arabs used to tell to glorify the Ottoman Empire: the Turks would leave Palestine only when a prophet of God brought water of the Nile to Palestine. The British had laid pipes that supplied their army with water in the desert, and so Allenby was called "Allah an-nabi", a prophet of God.

There was probably nothing the military administration disliked more than local politics. Unlike Ronald Storrs, most of the British were not interested, did not understand, and did their best to avoid the whole tangle. They had come to fight, conquer, and rule, not to engage in politics, Stirling told a representative of the Zionist movement.

Una cosa era demoler media docena de casas y echar a las familias que vivían en ellas, y otra muy diferente privar a diez leones, cuatro jirafas, un rinoceronte y una docena de avestruces de su único medio de vida. La opinión pública británica jamás consentiría la menor crueldad contra unos animalitos.

The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall.

In our democracy no man should tell another man to break the law, nor should any man break the law to by-pass Parliament. But a person who is punished for breaking an unjust law may if he is sincere and his cause wins public sympathy, create a public demand to have that unjust law changed through Parliament. This is the first and most fundamental principle of British democracy. It has a deep moral significance. Our religious and political liberties rest upon it.

Always good to have slept with at least one person on any committee on which one sits. It's the British way.

On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.

Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.

The British were fatalistic; it was the origin of their cynicism, but it also made them good sharers of misfortune. 'Oh, well, mustn't grumble!

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.