I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
Proportional representation is as British as first-past-the-post.
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.