Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are…
— Jonathan Krohn
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Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.
— Jeff Stelling
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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain…
— Liam Fox
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I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting,…
— T. R. Fehrenbach
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Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the…
— Robin Leach
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic…
— Ed Miliband
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
— George Mikes
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs,…
— Evan Davis
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape…
— Robert Winston
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Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect…
— David Chipperfield
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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last…
— Bill Bryson
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The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
— Al Murray
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The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate…
— Unknown Author
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"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.…
— Clive James
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was…
— Richard Posner
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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one…
— Frank Dobson
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We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
— Joschka Fischer
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We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain
— Cindy Sheehan
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I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for…
— William Wilberforce
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If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the…
— Alex Ferguson
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David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast…
— Alex Ferguson
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