Boers Quote by D. J. Taylor

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

— Margaret Heffernan

There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.

— David Linley

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of…

— William Randolph Hearst

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period…

— Karl Marx

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity…

— Thomas Bulfinch

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it…

— Liz Truss

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys…

— Peter York

The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!

— Winston Churchill

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging…

— John Ruskin

“Supermarkets were introduced into Britain to destroy small businesses and create a sense of social alienation”

— Little Britain

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive…

— Linda Colley