British Quotes

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.

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, yo

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

I love anything quiz related.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.