Britain Quotes

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

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

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks, and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it's curry.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

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.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.