What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so theywe have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.
I don't have a good British accent.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III. . . They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.
Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.
As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [. . . ] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.
All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.