Top 27 Traditional British Sayings
#1. I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#2. When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
Vince Cable
#3. Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.
Eva Green
#4. I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
Sean Lennon
#6. There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.
Gisela Stuart
#7. 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
#8. The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow
#10. Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.
George R R Martin
#11. I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.
Huey Lewis
#12. My beauty doesn't lie between my thighs.
Tracy Ames
#14. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.
Nigel Slater
#15. God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
Peter Altenberg
#16. The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
Jimmy Carter
#17. Violent hatred of one's neighbors gives a man a permanent sense of purpose.
Melissa McPhail
#18. A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Clive James
#19. It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.
Nick Park
#20. Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.
Peter Thiel
#21. We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.
Lionel Barber
#22. The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#23. We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
Peter Capaldi
#24. But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.
Terrence Howard
#25. The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
George Galloway
#26. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#27. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
Pharrell Williams
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