Britain Quotes

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

— John Surtees

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

— Ludwig Erhard

On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.

— Ed Davey

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

— Gordon Brown

Britain's always been our home from home.

— Ron Mael

The support in Britain made a big difference.

— Louise Woodward

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

— Jimmy Greaves

I am not a superstar in Britain.

— Stephen Hendry

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

— Jonathan Sacks

Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'

— Declan Donnelly

“C" is for colonies Rightly we boast that of all the great nations Great Britain has most!”

— Mrs. Ernest Ames

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

— David Lloyd George

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

— Robert Menzies

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

— David Chipperfield

We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why.

— Ana Patricia Botin

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

— David Starkey

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ…

— William Hamilton

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

— Lucy Powell

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

— David Blunkett

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake…

— George Osborne

“How do you know she had sex?” Dallas asks. “Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification.” “Oh,” Dallas…

— Iris Blaire

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

— Bobby Sands

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to…

— Andy Serkis

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money…

— Jonathan Meades

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people…

— Stuart Hall

“This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really…

— Todd McFarlane

Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only…

— Penny Junor

When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is…

— Yoweri Museveni

If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine…

— Pierre Daninos

“It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper,…

— David Kynaston

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible…

— J. B. Priestley

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…

— Christopher Hitchens

In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more…

— Noam Chomsky

Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to…

— Margaret Thatcher

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the…

— Simon Jenkins

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American…

— Gordon S. Wood

(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is…

— Margaret Thatcher

The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the…

— Margaret Thatcher