British Stereotypes Quotes

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you're branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you're branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.

I'm just the last English twit, really.

I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea you were British.'

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

My entire act is through and through British. I reference everything British.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.