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“The British have always made terrible parents.”

“The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.”

“The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.”

People Has Beens Shows America Difficult Violence Tvs Europe Aspect England Incredibles British Screens Canada Breasts Frightened Stomach Tv Shows Nudity Adverts

Author:Kim Cattrall

“The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.”

Has Beens Interest Cities Issues Taxes Europe Financial British Shy Regulation Introduction Transactions Reluctance Financial Regulation

Author:Francois Hollande

“The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.”

“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”

People Has Beens Made Care Order Virtue Humour Laughter British Odd Damn Acceptable

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“The British," he (Gandhi) said, "want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not.”

Indian Independence Movement

Author:William L. Shirer

Source: Gandhi: A Memoir

“The British," he (Gandhi) said, "want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not." _______Cited by William L Shirer in 'Gandhi: A Memoir”

Indian Independence Movement

Author:M.K.Gandhi

Source: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.”

People Ends Political Found Opportunity Struggle Shapes Elements Structure British Radical Progressive Mentality Governance Institute Nigeria Disadvantaged Political Struggle

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.”

Made Records Industry British Noise Invasion British Invasion

Author:Jeff Barry

“The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.”

Important Done Night Guy Saws Events Changed Band British Jersey Invasion New Jersey Important Events British Invasion

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.”

People Men World Mean Littles Air Position Depends Importance Claims Rate British Scales Islands Enterprise Aviation Airline Aeroplanes Second Rate

Author:H. G. Wells

“The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.”

World Judging British Active Judiciary

Author:Ken Livingstone

“The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.”

Thinking Intelligent British Employing

Author:John Cusack

“The British know USA Independence Day on July 4th as ‘Treason Day’.”

Independence British Usa Day Know July Treason Celebrations 4th

Author:Steven Magee

“The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.”

Years Mean Has Beens Today Movement Ultimate Aim British Strikes Circles Propaganda Labour Labour Movement

Author:Friedrich Engels

“The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.”

People Action Strong Party Military Policy Majority Wings Iraq British Obsessed Britain Labour Overwhelming Very Strong Components Blair Labour Party Military Action Obsequiousness

Author:John Pilger

“The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.”

“The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.”

Thinking Ends Political Actors Violence Republican Organization Army British Terrorist Genuine Ireland Grievance

Author:Richard A. Falk

“The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.”

Years Country Left Century Years Ago British Genocide Seventies Mao Buttocks Brezhnev Mugabe Good Country Josef Stalin

Author:Frederick Forsyth

“The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.”

Kind Long Kindness British Loud

Author:Thomas Beecham

“The British love permanence more than they love beauty.”

Love Is British Architecture Permanence

Author:Hugh Casson

“The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.”

Trying Humanity Levels Common Media News British Bars Lowest Sinking Stoops Common Denominator News Media Lowest Common Denominator

Author:John Oliver

“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.”

Wells Trade Constant West South Profit British Loser Continents Virginia Merchants Carolina South Carolina West Indies

Author:Ezra Stiles

“The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.”

Names Rewards British Ministry Spectacles

Author:John Hancock

“The British model, which I've always thought was great, is that you do a TV show and then they sell it. Then you can buy it at the video stores forever, so it never went away. But American TV used to be if you had a show and it got cancelled, then it never existed. It was just this thing you heard about and you couldn't see it again. There is something so great about shows getting released and people getting to watch them over and over again. It definitely takes the sting out of it.”

People Forever

Author:Paul Feig

“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”

Stills Purpose Liberty Citizens Threat British Certainty Comparison Museums Inquiry Civics Free Society British Museum

Author:Neil MacGregor

“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”

People Nations Worst Unique Respect Dignity British Bad Things British History

Author:Winston Churchill

“The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.”

British Merchants

Author:Ann Macbeth

“The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.”

War America Justice Britain Wwii Americans Britons

Author:Paul Brickhill

Source: The Great Escape

“The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.”

Kind Real Sometimes Sex Comedy Jokes British Backgrounds Nervous Subtle Shy Interpretation Hung Introspective Cinematic

Author:Steve Coogan

“The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king’s ransom (several million dollars in today’s currency) for a “Practicable and Useful” means of determining longitude.”

British Parliament Longitude Longitude Act

Author:Dava Sobel

Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

“The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.”

People Thinking Knows Want Feelings British Conventional

Author:Tina Turner

“The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.”

People Sea Tests British Salt Buckets

Author:Winston Churchill

Source: Victory: war speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...

“The British people are the boss.”

People British Boss

Author:Tony Blair

“The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed.”

World War I Belgium Ww I World War 1

Author:King Albert I of Belgium

“The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.”

People Want Needs Country Government Running Approach British Usual Rejected Wants And Needs New Approach

Author:Michael Gove

“The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Care Support Offers British Disabled

Author:George Osborne

“The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.”

People Want Ends Law Clear Unions British Britain Instruction European Union Supremacy

Author:Michael Gove

“The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.”

People Subjects British Graves Fog Statesmen

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.”

Said Philosophy Philosopher British Renaissance

Author:Leon M. Lederman

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.”

Generations Talent British Playwright Nina

Author:John Lahr

“The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.”

Language British Breathe Indian English Language Englishmen

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.”

Ends Sometimes Use Groups Presses British Scumbags

Author:John Oliver

“The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.”

Hands Presses British Annoying Jerk Smack

Author:Julian Casablancas

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

Should Understood Presses British Appetite Insatiable

Author:Niall Ferguson

“The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.”

Has Beens Presses British Unfair

Author:Joss Stone

“The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.”

Men Bigs Hate Balls Presses British Winner Cows

Author:Nigel Benn

“The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?”

Way Looks Care Used Written Presses British I've Learned Comment Nasty Spiteful

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.”

Care Used Presses British Used To Be These Days Vicious One Love Anthem Everyman

Author:Guy Garvey

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