Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
— Philip Hammond
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In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard…
— Douglas Alexander
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When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out…
— Marian Keyes
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I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six…
— Lennie James
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I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.
— Niall Ferguson
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I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I…
— Sean Connery
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So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some…
— Eddie Izzard
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Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
— Unknown Author
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Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to
— Unknown Author
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Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly…
— Anne Campbell
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We are happy to send Our Christmas Greetings to the holiday reunion of Ethiopian students in Great Britain. They reach you at a time when…
— Unknown Author
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Construction waste is a major source of pollution in the city, the backward handling way of it for a long time has led to the…
— Oliva
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Britain was just land,even rubble,until someone came and named it Great,God say's today that you're Great and even Greater.
— Joseph Maelane
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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
— Unknown Author
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The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized…
— W. Averell Harriman
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in…
— Dan Hawkins
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power…
— Patricia Hewitt
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I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
— Robin Cook
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green…
— Bernard Cornwell
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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
— Cynthia Payne
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