Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say ‘Bless You’. – Bernard Levin
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. – Bill Alexander
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. – Anthony Hopkins
I’ve been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I’ve come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. – Arthur Smith
My first British film was Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ which was a huge international success. – Anupam Kher
I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, ‘Far North,’ and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix. – Asif Kapadia
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They’re great. – Austin Mahone
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles. – Cate Blanchett
What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say. – Pete Townshend
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. – Ernst Zundel
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. – Ezra Stiles
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. – Carmen Ejogo
My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon. – Cesar Milstein
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. – Gerry Adams
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct ‘British’ accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. – Madeleine Stowe
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse – ‘bone’ china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that. – Christien Meindertsma
The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It’s almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity! – Peter Capaldi
So I rang up British Telecom, I said ‘I want to report a nuisance caller’, he said ‘Not you again’. – Frank Carson
The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it’s one of the rare examples where they’ve preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up. – Michael Winter
When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since. – Claire Bloom
What’s been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated. – Nathaniel Philbrick
I’ve always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I’m a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. – Elizabeth Hurley
