Prokash British Council Quotes

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. ~ V.S. Naipaul

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now. ~ Tibor Fischer

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. ~ Sarah Waters

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'? ~ Christopher Hitchens

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy. ~ Ali Larijani

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

However British you may be, I am more British still. ~ Henry James

Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council. ~ Ivica Dacic

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. ~ Neville Marriner

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. ~ Richard Attenborough

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. ~ Nelson Mandela

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head! ~ Elizabeth I

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate. ~ Gisela Stuart

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council. ~ Natalie Massenet

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. ~ Noel Gallagher

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA. ~ Condoleezza Rice

It was five months since Haig had told the British War Council: 'The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon and two per battalion is more than sufficient.' He was once again being proved terribly wrong. ~ Martin Gilbert

And interfering with the Council's decisions is a treasonous offense."
Grady snorted. "Not if the Council's gone crazy. ~ Shannon Messenger

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. ~ Morrissey

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. ~ Andrew Eldritch

I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan. ~ McG

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ~ Doris Lessing

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general. ~ William Monahan

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. ~ John Graves Simcoe

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British. ~ Victoria Beckham

How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred? ~ William Hague

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005. ~ Christine Pelosi

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. ~ George Osborne

The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have. ~ Nigel Benn

Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message. ~ Riyad Mansour

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ~ Julian Fellowes

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working. ~ Eric Fellner

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. ~ Thein Sein

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear. ~ Mike Jackson

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics. ~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger. ~ Arjuna Ranatunga

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. ~ Lucy Powell

Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted. ~ Robert Burns

The Council of Nicaea. An ecumenical council was a new experiment. Local councils had long since grown to be a recognised organ of the Church both for legislation and for judicial proceedings. But no precedent as yet prescribed, no ecclesiastical law or theological principle had as yet enthroned, the 'General Council' as the supreme expression of the Church's mind. ~ Philip Schaff

So you're British?' said Billy.
'I think of myself as English first, British second. It's a way of keeping the Scots and Welsh at a distance, never mind the Irish. ~ John Connolly

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. ~ Elliott Abrams

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. ~ Harry Johnston

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow". ~ James Alan Gardner

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. ~ Isabel Allende

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ~ Salman Rushdie

British people are surprised that I'm British! ~ David Harewood

President Obama is coming under criticism now for not meeting with his jobs council. He hasn't met with his jobs council in over six months. You know the reason Obama hasn't met with his job council in six months? They're all out looking for jobs. ~ Jay Leno

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council. ~ Javier Solana

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. ~ Lakhdar Brahimi

The British government is a murder machine, ~ Peter King

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. ~ Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre. ~ Brenda Blethyn

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. ~ Jose Maria Aznar

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. ~ Ernest Bevin

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war. ~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

He told me he was used to getting what he wanted. ~ Celia Conrad

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The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, What! Another talking head? ~ John Cleese

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this ~ Tony Benn

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. ~ Grantland Rice

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American. ~ Leonard Slatkin

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. ~ Richard Adams

Office of the Vice President ... The Council on Competativeness. ~ Dan Quayle

Good council has no price. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. ~ Rupert Murdoch

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish ~ Robin Cook

I'm quite a fan of British designers. ~ Tinie Tempah

The Sadducees are Hellenized Judeans and dominate the Council. The Pharisees are a minority on the Council, and consider the Sadducees to be their, well - " "Their enemy. ~ Janette Oke

You are part of our Great British family. ~ Boris Johnson

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. ~ Harold Macmillan

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army ~ John Terraine

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. ~ Bob Beauprez

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence. ~ James Wolfe

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. ~ M. E. W. Sherwood

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. ~ Kesha

British women can't cook. ~ Prince Philip

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ~ Barbara Tuchman

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'. ~ Neville Cardus

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fewer than 5,000 British officials, about 40,000–70,000 British soldiers, and perhaps another 100,000 British business people, hangers-on, wives and children were sufficient to conquer and rule up to 300 million Indians. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

For every show that we do, anyone that rides public transit, bikes, or walk, we offer them a $5 voucher at the merch table. It gets people using the infrastructure in the area. Hopefully, the venues where we play will lobby city council and say, we need bike paths, sidewalk repair. That stuff affects so many people's lives. ~ Ben Sollee

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond." ~ Ben Dreyfuss

[Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain? ~ Trent Lott

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English. ~ Lily Cole

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. ~ Melvyn Bragg

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually. ~ Amartya Sen

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

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. ~ Tom Allen

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

By 2015 more British Muslims were fighting for Isis than for the British armed forces. ~ Douglas Murray

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead. ~ Alexander Stoddart

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. ~ Martin Schulz

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. ~ Naomie Harris

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. ~ John Osborne

There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat ... ~ Charles Finch

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British. ~ David Mamet

I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern. ~ Parminder Nagra