All Quotes

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
‐‐ Kate Williams

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
‐‐ Alison Weir

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
‐‐ Graham Norton

Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.
‐‐ Andrew Mitchell

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
‐‐ Tony Benn

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

'Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.
‐‐ Mitch Hewer

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
‐‐ Josh Dallas

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
‐‐ James Purefoy

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
‐‐ Luke Evans

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Annaud

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

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.
‐‐ Megan Boone

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.
‐‐ Adam Rayner

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

British comedy fans go crazy.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
‐‐ Jason Gann

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
‐‐ Lee Child

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.
‐‐ Matt Haig

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
‐‐ Craig Charles

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

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

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
‐‐ Tom Ford

British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
‐‐ Kate Williams

British people are surprised that I'm British!
‐‐ David Harewood

British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea you were British.'
‐‐ David Harewood

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.
‐‐ Tadanobu Asano

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.
‐‐ Morrissey

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get.
‐‐ Theo James

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept.
‐‐ Marina and the Diamonds

Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie's girl; her campaigns were gorgeous.
‐‐ Lea Michele

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable.
‐‐ Russell Tovey