British Traditions Quotes

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

I've always been passionate about England.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something I enjoy.

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

I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

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.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

My family has always been proud of being British.

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.

It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.