Britain Quotes · Page 8

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

— Bashar al-Assad

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

— Christopher Lee

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

— Sadiq Khan

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

— John Major

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

— St. Jerome

I want to stand up for Britain's national interests.

— Liz Kendall

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

— Theresa May

“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”

— Sara Sheridan

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it…

— David Chipperfield

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right…

— Gisela Stuart

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier…

— Peter Hitchens

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more…

— John Lydon

I hope that we will find a solution that leaves Britain as a partner in a lot of the European activities that…

— Erna Solberg

No one in Britain wants Fracking. But the government is, against the will of the people, trying to force it upon us…

— Bez

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced…

— George Osborne

We in Britain do not have the same capabilities as the United States, but we are members of the United Nations Security…

— Michael Portillo

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots…

— Tim O'Reilly

I did a series in Britain years ago called 'Skins,' and I remember my little sister telling me that I had a…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile…

— Vince Cable

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food…

— Alan Moore

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political…

— George Osborne

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of…

— Evan Davis

In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going…

— Anthony Daniels

The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense…

— Paul Johnson

I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond…

— Gemma Arterton

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high…

— Alexander Hamilton

The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired…

— John Adams

America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical…

— Richard Barnet

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome…

— Kamand Kojouri

Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from…

— Andrew Simms

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and…

— Nick Cohen

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

— Felix Dennis

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

— Stanley Baldwin

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

— Mike Crapo

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

— Joseph Stalin

Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.

— Sadiq Khan

Britain is an amazing multicultural place to live in, and that should be celebrated and represented.

— Alesha Dixon