Britain Quotes

700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors

I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost Â£3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain… — Tim Yeo
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come… — Aasif Mandvi
I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole… — Sylvester McCoy
Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up… — Ann Macbeth
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn… — Catherine McCormack
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions… — N. T. Wright
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed… — Clive James
[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if… — Harold Wilson
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but… — Theodore Dalrymple
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation… — Jonathan Sacks
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from. — Miranda Richardson
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is… — Stephen Bayley
Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso. — Ludwig Erhard
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. — Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an… — Chris Patten
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. — Eric Burdon
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all. — Prince Andrew

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