I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and...

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

I don’t know if that’s really necessary, … Both AT&T and British Telecom can operate independently — they both have very good global operations.

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

Each of the 272 items is a masterpiece from the British Museum’s vast collections and together they demonstrate the long history of human civilization worldwide.

Tea! That’s all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place – which was bigger than it is now – was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out...

The British are really good at that. They are so incestuous, … They pass around partners as if it was popcorn at a movie. ‘Do you want some?’ It’s just bizarre.

I like color commentators. Especially red, white, and blue color commentators. As an American I sometimes feel so patriotic I feel British.

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: “What about Claudette Colbert? She’s British, isn’t she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...