Britain Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Want, London

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• Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

  Gordon Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

  Jon Stewart

  Yesterday, President, Groups

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien and Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. November 02, 2004.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Civilization

  "Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• 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

  Running, Military, War

  "Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan". Book by Ronald H. Spector, 1985.

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• Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Proud, Way, Fund

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

  Ringo Starr

  Funny, America, Buttons

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Years, Hymns

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

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Lines, Young

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• Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

  Gordon Brown

  Proud, Appeals, Tsunami

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• ... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

  Franz Halder

  Military, Historical, Empires

  Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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

  Eamon de Valera

  War, America, Proud

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• The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Years, Islands, Withdrawal

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.196

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• I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Thinking, Talent

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• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  Harold MacMillan

  Roles, Dinosaurs, Bees

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

  Tony Benn

  Suffering, Today, Obsolescence

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• 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.

  George Harrison

  Swings, Tin, Pieces

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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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• 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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• 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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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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