The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

He looks like a horse in a man costume!

UKIP is natural party for Eastern Europeans

Should have taken warning it’s justPeople mourningRunning, hiding, lostYou can’t find, find a place to go, so it’sRed skies at nightRed skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh… red skies at night, red skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh…Someone’s taking over, and it look like they’re aiming right at you…Someone said...

I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. “I could teach them Indian folk dances,” I offered, scrounging my mind for school dances in gaudy garments.”Well, I’m not sure that they would be complex enough for competitions,” she said. Pursing her lips, she blushed a dark, deep...

Ah. And then you kill him.””No,” Arkwright replied patiently. “We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{…}

A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn’t want to go in the hole on the back nine.

It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

If you can’t tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I’m saying “hoe” or “bitch” I am actually referring to men. …That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I’m sick of rappers using “bitches” and “hoes” as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a...

full English breakfast,” which consisted of tea, orange juice, cookies, oatmeal, granola, berries, bananas, croissants, grapes, pineapples, prunes, yogurt, five kinds of cold cereal, eggs, hash browns, back bacon, sausage, smoked salmon, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast, butter, jam, jelly, and honey. I don’t know how the British do it.

Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist.” Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge—or should I say gnosis?—of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang...

Don’t tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The...

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

I’m proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does...

His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

…But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of...

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation’s most promising talents.

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man; thus, in a symbolic language universally understood, seeking...

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world’s great diplomats, surely.

The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the...

I am very proud to be British. I’m very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.

Unlike the British we are not going to express our views without the necessary investigations.

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is not about who is a barbarian and who is civilised. It is about good governance, and this is a universal...

We worked on a few things that we’ve been working on from the British Open onwards with the swing, … What we’ve done from there is incorporate a little bit more shot-making, picturing shots a little bit more, which I had completely gone off of for part of this year.

Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we’ve just met of...

If my hip isn’t better I won’t go to the Senior British Open and that’ll be the end of the streak, … The plane ride over there will kill me.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn’t. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one’s aims are, that’s the trouble, specially if you’re British.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn’t

If I did take away Silverstone and a British Grand Prix, I’d be seen as a bad guy but that wouldn’t bother me.

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.’… The Brits don’t merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington’s Adventures in Detection: 1)”Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you’ve been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?””Remember your private detective wants to be able to sleep soundly at night and in their own bed, not one supplied as her...

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Virginians, like the British, did ceremonies very well. No one ever did anything inappropriate.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Do your parents know you’re here?’ asked the lady at social Services. ‘No,’ I said, ‘but I want to know about children’s homes.’ I had to stand on my toes to see over the reception desk.

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of ‘Dynasty?’ No thanks!

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

However British you may be, I am more British still.