Britain Quotes

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...

We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.But, generation after generation, They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

One if by land, two if by sea.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

The gift blesses the giver.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Possibility is limitless.