Britain Quotes
700 quotes by 462 authors
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
— Bashar al-Assad
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The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval…
— Douglas Alexander
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
— Henry David Thoreau
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My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave…
— Boris Johnson
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British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of…
— Martin McGuinness
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I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and…
— Bobby Sands
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My…
— John Hume
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I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?
— Robert Mugabe
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.â€[/box] [box] “There is no…
— Nelson Mandela
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
— Tony Blair
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Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
— George Jones
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Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their…
— Sidney Robertson Cowell
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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
— Ai Weiwei
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,…
— Anthony Storr
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I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
— Janet McTeer
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to…
— Nick Cohen
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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and…
— George Osborne
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