A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
“If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass!” — Hidekaz Himaruya Copy Share Image
The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered. — Jack Butland Copy Share Image
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Britain is at its best when we stand up for the values that we believe in. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when… — Olivia Hussey Copy Share Image
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama. — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations… — Clive James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But everyone remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Some other facts I picked up: Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbours Angela and Gaenor spoke it.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Britain is not a free country. In this special investigation, Rapid Eye tells you why.” — Simon Dwyer Copy Share Image
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We are the most British of Britain's banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don't why. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image