Britain Quotes - Page 4

• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Japan, Germany, Roles

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Play, Fans

  "Ivanisevic gets ready to bow out", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2004.

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• I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

  Peter Mandelson

  Attitude, Europe, Half

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• We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

  Francis Maude

  Needs, Today, Shows

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• In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  May, Empires, Way

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• In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

  Anthony Sampson

  America, Journalism, Newspapers

  1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.

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• Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

  Ludwig Erhard

  Europe, Torso

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

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Ends, Mess

  "The Road to Discontent: Britain in the '70s". PBS Interveiw, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2000.

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  Karen Armstrong

  Country, Intellectual, Looks

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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

  Tom Sizemore

  Fans, Mail, Great Britain

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• The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

  George W. Norris

  War, Great Day, Firsts

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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

  Robert Burns

  Hands, Patriotism, British

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• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

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• I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.

  Emma Watson

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Will Feminism Be Reborn? A Sign of Hope" by Kathleen Kelley Reardon, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming. It has been thoroughly debunked. The fact that it's a hoax has been proven, by them. E-mails that were uncovered at East Anglia University in Great Britain show that they worked together to perpetuate the hoax, that they lied about data, that they eliminate data that contradicted their political belief. So you'd have to assume from that that they are political advocates disguised as scientists who are purposely engaging in misinformation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Men, Data

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• Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

  Robert Mugabe

  Regimes, Blair, Obvious

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

  Tony Blair

  Tolerance, Conform

  "Radical Muslims must integrate, says Blair" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2006.

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• Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their industry and ability. Few papers will risk any attack on the Jews, however well-founded, for fear of appearing even distantly anti-Semitic.

  Sidney Robertson Cowell

  Risk, Paper, Praise

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• Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

  Ai Weiwei

  Self Confidence, Needs, Olympics

  "London 2012: Opening ceremony – reviews" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

  George Jones

  Government, Judging, Roles

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• Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

  Anthony Storr

  Depression, Men, Odds

  Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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• I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

  Janet McTeer

  Home, Garden, Lovely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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