Britain Quotes

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. (Isoroku Yamamoto)
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. View quote
Dean Acheson
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. View quote
Anthony Sampson
My job is to stop Britain from going red. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. View quote
David Lloyd George
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England. View quote
George Mikes
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
Angela Carter
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. View quote
Ringo Starr
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo, ... The same kilo, when it is processed and sold in Britain, goes for 10, 11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation price disparity that goes for all raw materials. View quote
Yoweri Museveni
I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't. (Margaret Thatcher)
I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck. View quote
Winston Churchill
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. View quote
Pierre Dukan
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. View quote
Richard O'Brien
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. View quote
Gordon Brown
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have. View quote
Gordon Brown
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin. View quote
Gordon Brown
I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn. View quote
Gordon Brown
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway. View quote
John Lennon
From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. (Harold Wilson)
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? View quote
David Lloyd George
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power. View quote
David Lloyd George
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. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North. View quote
Edward Elgar