Britain Quotes - Page 2

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.

Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

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.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.