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I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
- Christopher Gadsden
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
- Ian Mcewan
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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
- Eli Wallach
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
- Arthur Eddington
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I give no more paroles to British officers.
- Christopher Gadsden
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I'd like to win the British belt outright.
- James DeGale
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Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
- Linda Chavez
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
- Salman Rushdie
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
- Neville Marriner
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Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.
- Ann Cleeves
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I'm proud to be British.
- Amir Khan
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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
- Luke Ford
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My favourite museum is the British Museum.
- Felipe Anderson
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There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.
- Perdita Weeks
#British
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
- Beck
#British
I'm not lying in any way, British fans are the best in the world.
- William Regal
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I've always been a huge admirer and lover of Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang. I love so many British designers like Stella McCartney.
- Lily Collins
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I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
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British media supported Hillary. No problem with that. No interference. Nothing. French media supported Hillary. No problem with that. Some Russian media supported Trump: 'Oh my God!'
- Margarita Simonyan
#British
David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night.
- Andrea Riseborough
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I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
- David Cameron
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
- Samuel P. Huntington
#British
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
- Richard Perle
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One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.
- Marcy Kaptur
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I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.
- Georgia King
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A lot of British players had more potential than me. But they slipped away.
- Tim Henman
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
- Bernard Cornwell
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My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.
- Jahangir Khan
#British
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
- Lee Child
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I really appreciate the British part of my family.
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
- Lord Mountbatten
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I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.
- Jennifer Nettles
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The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
- Richard Baker
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It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
- Lucy Powell
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I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'
- Chubby Checker
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The British public cannot be treated like fools.
- Priti Patel
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In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
- Arthur Lewis
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I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
- Martin Fleischmann
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American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
- Martin Fleischmann
#British
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
- Austin Butler
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When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.
- Alfred Enoch
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I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas.
- Rolf Harris
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
- Andrew Eldritch
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In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.
- Katharine Viner
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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.
- Jonathan Galassi
#British
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
- Joseph Jacobs
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It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
- Margarita Simonyan
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Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
- Terry Teachout
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I boxed for the British title in my ninth fight.
- James DeGale
#British
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
- Nathan Lane
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Too close and unthinking an allegiance to Washington has sometimes got British governments into trouble.
- Linda Colley
#British
The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.
- Linda Colley
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Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.
- Tony Bradman
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I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.
- Ardal O'Hanlon
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I was genuinely shocked to even be in the frame for a sitcom role on British TV.
- Ardal O'Hanlon
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There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
- Denis Kearney
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The British have always made terrible parents.
- Rachel Cusk
#British
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
- George Borrow
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I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
- Giorgio Moroder
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
- Ian Hislop
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MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.
- Layla Moran
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
- Gerry Adams
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When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.
- Mahathir Mohamad
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We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
- Joel Kinnaman
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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
- Rod Stewart
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British comedy fans go crazy.
- Chris Lilley
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I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.
- Jonathan Krisel
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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#British
The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
- John Clifford
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There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
- Graham Chapman
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I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
- John Oliver
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I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
- John Oliver
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We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
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British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
- Ivor Novello
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I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.
- Jeremy Kyle
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Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
- Sarah Hall
#British
We are ambassadors of American style, but we're in awe of British style.
- David Lauren
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
- Paloma Faith
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We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
- Nicholas Lea
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I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.
- Cat Deeley
#British
American manners are different than British manners.
- Ingrid Seward
#British
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
- Austin Mahone
#British
The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.
- James William Middleton
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Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.
- Cher Lloyd
#British
British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.
- Gina Miller
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
- Damien Hirst
#British
If ailing British companies such as Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, British Airways and Cadbury can be turned around, there is still hope for the BBC.
- Noel Edmonds
#British
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.
- George Vancouver
#British
I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
- Claire Forlani
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
- Harold MacMillan
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
- Queen Elizabeth II
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There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
- Daniel Hannan
#British
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
- Tim Roth
#British
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
- Leslie Caron
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In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
- Simon Newcomb
#British
The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
- Paul Revere
#British
However British you may be, I am more British still.
- Henry James
#British
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
- Paris Hilton
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