Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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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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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
— Julia Ward Howe
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Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain…
— Oswald Mosley
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Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.
— Hassanal Bolkiah
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and…
— Irvine Welsh
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily…
— William H. Seward
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