British Quotes - Page 2

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

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

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

British women can't cook.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.