Britain Quotes · Page 15

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

— Annie Lennox

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

— James McAvoy

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

— Boris Johnson

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

— John Wilmot

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

— John Amery

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

— Susie Dent

I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.

— Sophie Okonedo

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

— Theresa May

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

— Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

— Helen Mirren

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain…

— David McCullough

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

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system…

— George Osborne

When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience.…

— David Hasselhoff

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence…

— David Frum

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

— George Jones

I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that…

— Bill Bryson

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…

— Jonathan Raban

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds…

— Anthony Storr

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

— Sadiq Khan

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school…

— Heather Brooke

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…

— Martin Jacques

I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become…

— Kevin McKidd

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and…

— Linda Colley

I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made…

— Spiros Doikas

Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a…

— Matt Lucas

There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that…

— Robert Mugabe

Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that…

— David Cannadine

It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain…

— Enoch Powell

“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part…

— Joseph Devlin

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

— George Osborne

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

— David Hockney

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

— William Golding

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

— Tacitus

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

— David Lammy

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

— Ken Livingstone

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

— Andrea Leadsom

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

— Sara Sheridan