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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• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Writing, Class

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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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• 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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• Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, Ties, Today

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• I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

  Anne Stevenson

  Married, Young, Cambridge

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• 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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Littles, Contemporary, Fascinating

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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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• Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

  Ludwig Erhard

  Europe, Torso

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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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• 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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• 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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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Exercise, Liberty, Levels

  Margaret Thatcher (1988). “Britain and Europe: Text of the Prime Minister's Speech at Bruges on 20th September 1988”

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• Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate by voting for each other every year and ignoring our (sometimes) palpably superior songs. Accordingly, Britain has become the Millwall FC of Eurovision: we are hated, we know we are hated, and we pretend we are happy to be hated. It's actually quite a sad state of affairs.

  Marcus Berkmann

  Country, Song, Years

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• The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

  Joschka Fischer

  Fall, Years, Lines

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• If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Father, Half

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• David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "David Beckham exits as gracefully as one of his arcing crosses" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

  Oswald Mosley

  Brother, Light, Flames

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