British Quotes - Page 5

• I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Writing, Hype

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• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Inappropriate, Source

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

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• Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

  Robert Trout

  Medicine, Addiction, Chinese

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• My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

  Tracey Ullman

  Character, Actors, Influence

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Scotland, Special

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• La máxima del pueblo británico es "business as usual".

  Winston Churchill

  Business, People, Usual

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

  Virginia Graham

  Stupid, Blind, Be Careful

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• I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

  Glynis Johns

  Play, Majority

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• El público estadounidense suele ser más expresivo que el británico.

  Simon Pegg

  Audience, Expressive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

  Simon Pegg

  Humor, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Nominations

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• En un momento dado, los servicios secretos británicos estaban formados casi en su totalidad por homosexuales alcohólicos que trabajaban para el KGB.

  Clive James

  Kgb, Secreto, Clásico

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• ... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

  Franz Halder

  Military, Historical, Empires

  Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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• Nadie puede ser tan calculadamente grosero como los británicos, lo que asombra a los estadounidenses, que no entienden el insulto estudiado y sólo pueden ofrecer el abuso como sustituto.

  Paul Gallico

  Inspirador, grosero, insultante

  The New York Times, 14 de enero de 1962.

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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• A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

  George Vancouver

  Taken, Vancouver, Robbing

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• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Magazines, Firsts

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• I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Way, Caricatures

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• I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Pensar, Saber

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• Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

  Donald Pleasence

  Usa, Directors, Approach

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• When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

  George Mikes

  Mean, People, Kingdoms

  George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

  Nick Park

  Cute, Strange, Kind

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• Si no dejamos de comportarnos como el Imperio Británico, acabaremos como él.

  Pat Buchanan

  Paz, guerra, imperios

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• La última vez que viajé en Intercity había una pareja al otro lado del pasillo practicando sexo. Por supuesto, al ser un tren británico, nadie dijo nada. Entonces terminaron, ambos encendieron un cigarrillo y esta mujer se levantó y dijo: "Disculpe, creo que descubrirá que este es un compartimento para no fumadores".

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Sex, Couple

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