We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways. – Pauline Hanson
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. – Denis Kearney
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now – we all moved there four years ago. – Claire Forlani
The fact that it’s hard to create an original British musical doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. – Gurinder Chadha
I thought, If people are going to write about what I’m wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. – Emma Watson
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. – Michael Baden
I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don’t want to decide for the British. – Francois Hollande
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. – Donald Pleasence
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for. – Neil MacGregor
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. – Nick Clegg
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands. – Neil MacGregor
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries. – Pankaj Mishra
When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997. – Noreena Hertz
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling. – Nigel Farage
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. – Norm Dicks
The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn. – John Eisenhower
With the issue of immigration, it’s very difficult because, although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears. – Morrissey
Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote ‘House of Cards’ in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on. – Kevin Spacey
Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of ‘American Vogue’, ‘Italian Vogue’, ‘British Vogue’, and ‘French Vogue’. – Linda Evangelista
There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from ‘The Guardian’ fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths. – Jo Becker
