Britain Quotes

700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require? — Mahatma Gandhi
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! — Vitali Klitschko
I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.. — Bobby Sands
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it. — Kenneth Clarke
In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success… — Toby Young
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an… — Robert D. Kaplan
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will,… — Joseph Hume
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our… — Joseph Hume
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this… — Michael King
William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth… — J I Packer
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in… — Timothy Dalton
It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on… — David Walliams
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's… — David Walliams
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are… — David Oyelowo
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy. — Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of… — Douglas Hurd
Europe is my continent, not my country — John Redwood
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted… — Anthony Eden
Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe. — Stanley Baldwin
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience. — John Major
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of… — Hugh Gaitskell
If Britain becomes a member of the Community, it will be healthier for Britain, advantageous for Europe, and a gain for the whole world. I… — James Callaghan

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