quotes about Britain
-
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
-- Anne Stevenson -
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.
-- Cat Deeley -
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
-- Charles Kennedy -
-
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
-- Charlie CoxSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
-
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
-- David Cameron -
I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.
-- David Cameron -
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
-- David Chipperfield -
-
We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do
-- Ed Miliband -
I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
-- Edwin Starr -
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
-- Ephraim Mirvis -
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.
-- Eric Burdon -
-
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.
-- Francis Maude -
Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
-- Francois Fillon -
I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
-- George Osborne -
-
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
-- George OsborneSource : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
-
This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
-- Gordon Brown -
Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.
-- Gordon Brown -
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
-- Graham NortonSource : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. August 2004.
-
-
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.
-- James CallaghanSource : The Guardian, November 19, 1982.
-
Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.
-- Jeff Stelling -
-
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
-- Jeremy HardySource : "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.
-
Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.
-- Jimmy Greaves -
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
-- John Major -
Europe is my continent, not my country
-- John RedwoodSource : John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing
-
-
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
-- Jonathan Coe -
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
-- Ken Livingstone -
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
-- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of DorkingSource : "The Road to Discontent: Britain in the '70s". PBS Interveiw, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2000.
-
-
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.
-- Linda Colley -
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
-- Lucy Powell -
Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.
-- Ludwig Erhard -
Britain is obsessed with political correctness.
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
-
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
-- Martin Parr -
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
-- Michael Ignatieff -
-
While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.
-- Michael Sheen -
Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
-- Michael Sheen -
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
-- Miranda Richardson -
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.
-- Neil Kinnock -
-
The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.
-- Norman TebbitSource : "BBC Faces Fresh Criticism Over Offensive Remarks About Baroness Thatcher " by Laura Roberts and Richard Edwards, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 09, 2009.
-
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies -
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
-- Robert Reich -
Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
-- Stanley Baldwin -
-
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
-- Stephen Bayley -
When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.
-- Steve Coogan -
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
-- Tom Sizemore -
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
-- Tony Benn -
-
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
-- Tony Benn -
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
-- Tony Blair -
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.
-- Trevor Phillips -
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
-- Walter Jon Williams -
-
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
-- William Hague -
Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.
-- Alice LoweSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
-
I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.
-- Jeremy CorbynSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
-
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
-- Walter Walker -
-
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
-- Andrew Marr -
Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
-- Anne Campbell -
Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.
-- Edward Davey -
We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.
-- Ruth DavidsonSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
-
-
The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.
-- Ruth DavidsonSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
-
Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.
-- Sharon Osbourne