Britain Quotes · Page 19

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

— Margaret Thatcher

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

— Ann Widdecombe

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

— Russell Howard

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

— Angus Deaton

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

— Luciana Berger

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

— Margaret Thatcher

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

— David Cameron

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not…

— Robert Kuttner

There will always be border controls between France and Britain, whether we are in the E.U. or not, simply because we are…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for…

— Melanie Chisholm

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in…

— Eve Ensler

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is…

— Roy Hattersley

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough…

— Carol Thatcher

A Britain that led the way for others and contributed so much good to the world. That is the vision of Britain…

— Suella Braverman

I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain's naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe's first film was shown here [The…

— Diana Dors

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe…

— Andrew Morton

Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table…

— Geoff Davis

The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were…

— John Adams

I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom…

— Thomas Jefferson

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the…

— Thomas Kuhn

Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part…

— Robert Dallek

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work…

— Iain Duncan Smith

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

— David Olusoga

I think I may have got the part in 'Dragon Tattoo' because of 'Little Britain.'

— Geraldine James

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

— Maxime Weygand

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

— Dan Aykroyd

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and…

— Marcus Rediker

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House…

— Neil Kinnock

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and…

— Frank Lowy

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of…

— Douglas Hurd

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

— Mahatma Gandhi

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that…

— Clive Anderson

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric…

— Helen Mirren

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

— Stephen Hendry

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency…

— Gordon Ramsay

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

— Robert Carlyle