Top British Quotes
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Queen Elizabeth II
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
William Whipple
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
Martin McGuinness
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
Tim Roth
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
Steve Yzerman 
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In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Joseph Hume
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I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Joan Collins
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The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
John Hume
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
Diane Wakoski
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For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.
Ernst Zundel
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
Wendell Willkie
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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