Britain Quotes

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

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

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

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

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 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.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

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

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

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.

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

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

[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.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Europe is my continent, not my country

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.