Britain Quotes · Page 42

O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For…

— William Watson

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

— Joanna Lumley

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart…

— Simon Schama

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world,…

— Andrew Mitchell

It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

— Cliff Richard

Tipping generally changes depending on where you are in the world. In Britain you don't always have to tip, but I always…

— Andy Murray

“You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.”

— Jacques Chirac

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

— Margaret Thatcher

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. -…

— Jennifer Ehle

London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a…

— Sadiq Khan

“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant.…

— William Joynson-Hicks

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

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity…

— Louis Susman

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British…

— Johann Hari

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was…

— Bono

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.…

— Irvine Welsh

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

— Annie Lennox

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was…

— George Mason

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

— Owen Jones

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

— Francois Fillon

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together…

— H. G. Wells

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such…

— William Joyce