(229 quotes found)
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
Winston Churchill
“Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the Iraqis handed the British food back.”
Conan O'Brien
“I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.”
Clement Attlee
“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't”
Stephen Leacock
“You're my first British visitor,”
Oprah Winfrey
“The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.”
Clive James
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Wallace Stevens
“I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.”
Billy Connolly
“When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.”
Jack Nicklaus
“These are the same old fogies who doffed their lids and tugged the forelock to the British establishment [of Aussie Tory supporters of Britain]”
Paul Keating
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