Britain Quotes · Page 5

Britain is a development superpower.

— Penny Mordaunt

I like my men like I like my tea... Hot and British

— Anonymous

My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

— Derek Walcott

Britain must be the champion of international law.

— Ed Davey

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

— Margaret Thatcher

Class still matters in Britain today.

— Johnny Vegas

It's like Britain, only with buttons.

— Anonymous

“One if by land, two if by sea.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

— Dan Aykroyd

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

— Maxime Weygand

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

That's what we're taught to do in Britain - you protect your castle.

— Bugzy Malone

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

— David Hume

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

— Jeremy Paxman

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

— Helen Sharman

Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to…

— Robin Cook

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the…

— John Lydon

Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory…

— Linda Colley

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do…

— Irvine Welsh

Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability…

— James Callaghan

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely…

— Helen Mirren

Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.

— Deeyah Khan

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the…

— Margaret Thatcher

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War…

— James Buchan

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none…

— Winston Churchill

It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces…

— Peter Padfield

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to…

— Domenico Dolce

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped…

— Ash Sarkar

I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia.…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day…

— Christopher Hitchens

First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the…

— Chris Huhne

If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to…

— B. C. Forbes

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

“Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the…

— Prem Kishore

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not…

— Christopher Hitchens