Best Brits Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It sounded like something you Brits would say." "Someday, I'd love to hear what you imagine my people are like." "Stiff. Formal. Everyone's a time traveler, a wizard, or works for MI6." She placed her plate on the table, pretending not to notice the legs wobbling a little at the weight. "That's not quite right. Only some of us are wizards. The rest are Muggles.”

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Book:Serving Pleasure

Source: Serving Pleasure

“Do you know what that is, Snow? A flaming pyre, set adrift in the sea. We could do yours in Blackpool, so all your chavvy Normal friends can come.”

Brits Blackpool Chavs Chavvy

Book:Carry On

Source: Carry On

“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”

Hate Humour Britain Patriotic Brits Unpatriotic

Author:Ben Mitchell

“I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.”

Firsts Said Lasts Mets First Time Let Me Lovely Touched Last Time Congratulations Brits

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.”

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Author:Sonya Walger

“I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.”

Thinking Way Should Art Fans Particular Genius Absolutes Massive Brits

Author:David Morrissey

“People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.”

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Author:Rick Wakeman

“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”

World Years Real Age Class Hair Competition Thirty Hats Funeral Civilians Thirty Years Brits

Author:Peter York

“Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.”

Firsts Moments Nice Middle Pride Quiet Smell Lovely Wheels Replaced Worth It Interiors Leather Steering Brits Volvo Audi

Author:Peter York

“When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?”

Rooms London Ridiculous Dressings Dressing Rooms Brits Jacuzzi

Author:Paris Hilton

“Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.”

Believe States Happens Grows President United United States Growing Up Brits

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.”

Play School Four Brits Adverts

Author:Jessie J

“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."”

“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.”

People Stars Dark Moral Enemy Catholic Suicide Atheist Clarity Landscape Rising Immigrants Speakers Bombing Legion Terminal Lynching Brits Disgruntled Dark Skinned

Book:Spin

Source: Spin

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

Thinking Laughing Television Hills Brits Toothpaste

Author:A. A. Gill

“We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the U.K., the more cross-fertilization there is that's perhaps changing.”

Thinking Needs Crosses Transfers Brits Fertilization

Author:Rosamund Pike

“I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.”

World Seems Bits Term Rocks Taste Jazz Heavy Pops Odd Classic Cycles Metals Phases Eclectic Heavy Metal Brits World Music Classic Rock Taste In Music Eclectic Style

Author:Rachel Miner

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.”

Persons Culture Voice Known Car Window Cooking Caution Other Cultures Garlic Brits Undisciplined

Book:Tigerman: A novel

Source: Tigerman: A novel

“Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.”

Way War Would Be Break Cry Europe Ships Passengers Parades Geese Break Out Brits

Author:Frank Buckles

“I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?”

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Author:Jack Cafferty

“Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.”

Ifs Shows Kids Arms Hey Vulnerability Cynical Brits Chinks

Author:Bear Grylls

“I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.”

Firsts Girl Community Kissing First Time Seasons Teeth Nervous Brits Kissing A Girl

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.”

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Author:Bob Barr

“I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Persons Book Self Character Running Age Force Stuff Process Generations Mystery Oneself Loyalty Ridiculous Defined Tension Peculiar Flawed Self Education Brits

Author:John le Carre

“I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.”

Feels Littles Girl Pieces Fashion Style Inspired Mood Suits Classic Silhouettes Brits Love Fashion I Love Fashion

Author:Sophia Bush

“I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.”

Used Three Games Social Sides Mad Dollars Add Weather Used To Be Obsessed Instagram Bans Apps Brits

Author:Tom Felton

“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.”

People Want Happens Artist Interesting Powerful Groups Industry Hanging Out Brits

Author:Duncan Roy

“America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.”

Soul Self Country Would Be America Answers Awareness Identity England Self Awareness Jew Collections Immigrants Load Brits Subliminal

Author:Martin Amis

“I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.”

Ifs Trying Certain Gone Rocks Style Band Smart Presses Pops London Ridiculous Height Really Great Revival Rock Music Blur Oasis Brits Kink Blazers Ridiculous Things

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.”

People Ifs Way Has Beens Seems Happens Add Alarms Reassurance Brits

Author:Brit Hume

“Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.”

States Numbers Citizens Western Welfare Retiring Vacation Narcissistic Preoccupation Welfare State Frenchmen Brits Vacation Time

Book:Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

“What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.”

Writing Black Wall Arms Grew Activity Band Grew Up Died Hunger March Brits Ira Strikers Wearing Black

Author:Glen Hansard

“I was very aware of the legend, from such an early age. Being a Brit, you are so aware of King Arthur, Camelot, Guinevere and Morgan, the witch. Merlin is this mad magician who's cloaked in mystery. It has that mystery about it. And, it's a lead role for a woman that's strong and has a real journey to take.”

Real Age Strong Roles Mystery Journey Kings Mad Witch Legends Magician Arthur Brits King Arthur Camelot Guinevere

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.”

Foul Brits

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.”

Faces Claims Democrat Terrorist Rough Brits Machismo Hume

Author:Ann Coulter

“I don't think the Spice Girls are celebrated as much as they should be. We championed British pop worldwide. We toured everywhere to sell-out crowds and I think there should have been a reflection of that at February's Brit's anniversary.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Girl Reflection Should Have Sells Crowds Pops British Should Have Been Spices February Brits Spice Girls

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.”

Class Musical Singers Broads Brits Amazing Places Musical Education

Author:Katie Melua

“I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.”

Want Sometimes White Baby Lonely Including Lists Oscars Poodles Grammy Brits Checklists

Author:Joss Stone

“It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.”

Thinking Social Understanding Reader Bunch Editors Wire Moron Brits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.”

Ifs Said Lying Calling British Englishmen Brits Chinks Paddy

Author:Dave Whelan

“The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.”

People Thinking Way Looks Favors Underdog Eccentricity Brits Ions

Author:Guido Palau

“Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.”

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Author:Paul Feig

“The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they didn't do as much of when the show was 100 percent written by Brits just because I'm not sure they were quite as familiar with some of these little moments in our government system.”

Thinking Littles Different Moments Shows Government Fun Written Percent Familiar Not Sure Different Things Fun Things Brits Little Moments

Author:David Mandel

“Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.”

Moral Serious Blame Judgement Isis Brits Moral Judgement

Author:Tzipi Livni

“With respect to Great Britain, I have a dream, by the way: that the Brits will see that the EU is changing, and change their minds. And then remain in the EU or return to the EU. I am not giving up hope.”

Way Giving Mind Dream Return Giving Up Britain Not Giving Up Great Britain Brits Not Giving Up Hope

Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.”

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