British Press Quotes

#1. The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

Guy Garvey

#2. Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Vincent Tan

#3. I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.

Tom Stoppard

#4. The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Oliver

#5. I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

Andrew Eldritch

#6. I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

Kevin Spacey

#7. The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

William Manchester

#8. The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

Nigel Benn

#9. The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

Julian Casablancas

#10. You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

Stephen Malkmus

#11. The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Niall Ferguson

#12. When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Claire Bloom

#13. When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.

Heather Brooke

#14. Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Robert Trout

#15. I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

Heather Brooke

#16. In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

John Le Carre

#17. The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Joss Stone

#18. 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

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

Paddy Ashdown

#20. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

George Orwell

#21. The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

Melanie Chisholm

#22. I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

Nick Clegg

#23. I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

John Major

#24. We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.

John Lennon

#25. My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese.

Patti Stanger

#26. God wants us to be leaders in all levels of society and to be in charge of the society

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Stephen Hawking

#28. When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish ... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

Brenda Fricker

#29. You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

Sam Harris

#30. I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches.

Steve Carell

#31. Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

Yves Behar

#33. 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

#34. When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Kate Adie

#35. The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Tim Hetherington

#36. There have been a few workers we had to deep-freeze, some who aren't fit for another shift.

Hugh Howey