Black Quote by Goldwin Smith

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back…

— Helen Cresswell

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why are millions…

— Anne Frank

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of…

— Samuel Smiles

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and…

— Priti Patel

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

— Bill Bryson

We have a very good history of manufacturing in this country but I worry that these skills are being lost. We walk around saying,…

— Deborah Meaden

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes…

— Ratan Tata

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