British Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, Iraqis handed the British food back.
Conan O’Brien

When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
Alain Prost

The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.
Clive James

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
Glynis Johns

The British team need to pull their socks out!
Steve Cram

An Argentine is an Italian who speaks Spanish and thinks he is British.
Anonymous

Californians don’t have that marvellous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronising at times.
Alexandra Kingston

This is the third week the fish seem to be getting away from British tennis players.
Gerald Williams

I cannot believe that the great British people, in order to protect their identity, would now be cowering on the very island from which they set sail to travel the world.
Edouard Balladur

You know what? I’m really attracted to British women, there’s something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
Josh Hartnett

I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British.
Woody Allen

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert G. Menzies

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.
Lord Rosebery

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.
Winston Churchill

The Empire is a Commonwealth of Nations.
Lord Rosebery

If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
Mikhail Gorbachev

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with £300, what could he not do? It’s almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English.
J. M. Barrie

‘Can’t’ will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.
Oswald Mosley