Britain Quotes

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.

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

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

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

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

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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

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

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

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent, that's very obvious.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.