British Quotes

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

Holy war for Muslims is a religious war, and a religious war is something you never stop fighting.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

The United States is like a giant steam generator. Once the fire has been lighted under it, there is no limit to the amount of power it can generate.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

To make a union with Great Britain would be fusion with a corpse.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

It has often been stated in print, that when Mrs. Madison escaped from the White House, she cut out from the frame the large portrait of Washington (now in one of the parlors there), and carried it off. This is totally false. She had no time for doing it. It would have required a ladder to get it down. All she carried off was the silver in her reticule, as the British were thought to be but a few squares off, and were expected every moment. John Suse (a Frenchman, then door-keeper, and still living) and Magraw, the President's gardener, took it down and sent it off on a wagon, with some large silver urns and such other valuables as could be hastily got hold of. When the British did arrive, they ate up the very dinner, and drank the wines, &c., that I had prepared for the President's party.

Arnold is a traitor, and has fled to the British! Whom can we trust now?

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition.

I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on 'Sharpe,' one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did - 'Sharpe's Revenge?' A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.