Top 100 British People Quotes
#1. The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will.
Theresa May
#2. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.
Kevin Allen
#3. I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.
Anna Soubry
#4. If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
Ted Cruz
#5. It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
Stafford Cripps
#6. I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.
George Papandreou
#7. I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
George Osborne
#8. The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.
Geoffrey Howe
#9. The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
George Osborne
#10. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
Pankaj Mishra
#11. I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private.
Julianne Moore
#13. I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.
Tony Blair
#14. I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.
Carmen Ejogo
#15. No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum
David Cameron
#17. I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
Verne Troyer
#18. If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
David Cameron
#19. we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion.
Jojo Moyes
#20. I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
Callan McAuliffe
#21. They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
Michael Gove
#22. It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people.
Nicky Morgan
#23. I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
Raza Jaffrey
#25. A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.
Melanie Chisholm
#26. Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
Emily Blunt
#27. The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#28. I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]
Menzies Campbell
#30. We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.
Steve Blake
#31. I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#32. Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
Theresa May
#34. All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton
#35. Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
Rachel Hawkins
#36. British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.
Monica Bellucci
#37. What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
Nick Clegg
#38. I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
George Osborne
#39. I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.
Jim Broadbent
#40. I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.
Maurice Druon
#41. The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.
Michael Gove
#42. British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.
Tadanobu Asano
#43. I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
David Cameron
#44. No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
Morrissey
#45. But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#46. Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.
Ryan Cartwright
#47. Said, and we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. In
Jojo Moyes
#48. We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
Iain Duncan Smith
#49. If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.
Craig Ferguson
#50. I love London, I love the British people.
Yohan Blake
#51. In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
Gordon Brown
#52. Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
Arthur Scargill
#53. Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#54. Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.
Martin Freeman
#55. The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Benjamin Disraeli
#56. The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
Michael Gove
#57. Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
George Osborne
#58. British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We've lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
Tom Ford
#59. I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
Tom Allen
#60. Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact was actually quite the opposite of true.
Rachel Van Dyken
#61. I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign, I believe in them, I will deliver them.
Michael Gove
#62. I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
John Major
#63. It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
Graham Joyce
#64. I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
Margaret Thatcher
#65. Whenever Gansey talked to British people about America, they always seemed to think he meant Texas.
Maggie Stiefvater
#66. The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.
Francois Hollande
#67. I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.
Jeremy Thomas
#68. I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins
#69. They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.
Winston Churchill
#70. I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.
Nick Clegg
#71. British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death
John Oliver
#72. Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path to ensuring that when the question is finally put - and at some stage it will have to be - it is much more likely that the British people will reject the EU.
David Cameron
#73. I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.
Jacques Chirac
#74. A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert
#75. I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.
Matthew Norman
#76. Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#77. Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.
Daniel Hannan
#78. The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.
Nigel Lawson
#79. At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel Weisz
#80. Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer.
Theresa May
#81. The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
Winston Churchill
#82. I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.
Margaret Thatcher
#83. I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
John Oliver
#84. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#85. If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
William Hague
#86. The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
Michael Gove
#87. We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island. (4th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler
#88. I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
Vince Cable
#89. Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We
Holly Bourne
#90. If liberal government was to be saved, [the British people of 1940] would have to be the ones to save it.
Brooke C. Stoddard
#91. I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
Philip Green
#92. The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.
John Pilger
#93. 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
#94. It sounded wrong rolling off his tongue, but still elegant, somehow. Like a British person cussing.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#95. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Mick Jagger
#96. Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.
Elizabeth McCracken
#97. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
Khaled Hosseini
#98. Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Stafford Cripps
#99. The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.
George Galloway
#100. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.
Dwight Garner
