Attention Quote by Linda Colley

I don't think the Spice Girls are celebrated as much as they should be. We championed British pop worldwide. We toured everywhere to sell-out…

— Melanie Chisholm

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from…

— Samuel Adams

Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo,…

— Linda Colley

High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for…

— Linda Colley

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

— Steve Winwood

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

— Frederick Banting

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

— Sade Adu

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

— Kevin Brownlow

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were…

— Doug Liman

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear…

— Nick Park

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton