Britain Quotes

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

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.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Nice to see you, to see you nice

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

Britain is an open and tolerant country.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.

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.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

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 as they can.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

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 the books.

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.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.