| "The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'" »Winston Churchill |
| "To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity." »Oscar Wilde |
| "If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" »Alexis Sayle |
| "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill |
| "N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst." »Winston Churchill |
| "Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian." »Rachel Blanchard |
| "A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr |
| "Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer |
| "It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians." »Richard Ingrams |
| "Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding |
| "Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies." »Alexander Pope |
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