We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay
I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British. Woody Allen
They are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent. Voltaire
I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other. Thomas Jefferson
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. Clement Attlee
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. George Borrow
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. William Golding
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Catherine Drinker Bowen