Top 37 Quotes About The British Press
#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. 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
#11. 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
#12. Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout
#13. 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
#14. 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
#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. 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
#25. MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!
Steve Maraboli
#29. I prefer to let my voice do all the talking for me.
Jarod Kintz
#30. Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.
Steven Pinker
#31. I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.
Sevyn Streeter
#32. I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
Nas
#33. 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
#34. In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
Robert Reich
#35. 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
#36. 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
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