(231 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 that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.”
Billy Connolly
“You're my first British visitor,”
Oprah Winfrey
“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't”
Stephen Leacock
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Wallace Stevens
“The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.”
Clive James
“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
“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.”
Chuck Yeager
“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”
J. B. Priestley
