It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Britain is not part of the single currency. That is a decision we have taken, a voluntary decision of this country, but… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been… — John Bush Copy Share Image
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William… — George Mason Copy Share Image
If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“How do you know she had sex?” Dallas asks. “Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification.” “Oh,” Dallas… — Iris Blaire Copy Share Image
For centuries in Britain, the small-talk standby has been the weather. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image