Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
— Pete Doherty
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Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling…
— Marian Keyes
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How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in…
— Arundhati Roy
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I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back…
— Rosemary Sutcliff
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But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the…
— Thomas Paine
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And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt…
— John Green
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America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts…
— Matt Groening
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In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed…
— David Walliams
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Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
— Rick Riordan
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This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in…
— Adolf Hitler
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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation
— Tony Benn
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That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British…
— Richard Henry Lee
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent…
— Linford Christie
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Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was…
— Bill Bryson
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In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder…
— Graydon Carter
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In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap…
— Arthur Potts Dawson
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
— Dan Aykroyd
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