British Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


I would rather be British than just.
Ian Paisley

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Hugh Casson

The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.
Anonymous

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
Georges Duhamel

Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
Francis Kilvert

The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual’.
Winston Churchill

I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.
Winston Churchill

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands.
George Henry Borrow

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

The classic formula for success is: “Dress British, Think Yiddish.
Proverb

The British flag has never flown over a more powerful or a more united empire…Never did our voice count for more in the councils of nations; or in determining the future destinies of mankind.
George Nathaniel Carson

I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don’t think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire.
David Lloyd George

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.
Nigel Lawson

They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are - who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Frederick Forsyth

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

The brains of the British have gone soft.
Raymond Blanc

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.
Tony Parsons

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Prince Charles

The British won’t fight.
Leopoldo Galtieri

The British people are the boss.
Tony Blair

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
John Osborne

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.
Lord Beaverbrook

They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent.
Voltaire

I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Winston Churchill

Other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might’.
Evelyn Waugh

The British press hate a winner who’s British. They don’t like any British man to have balls as big as a cow’s like I have.
Nigel Benn

We are in the Premiership of British retailing again.
Stuart Rose

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