Britain Quotes

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

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

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

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

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.

My job is to stop Britain from going red.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

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

Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

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

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.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

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

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.

Britain is an open and tolerant country.

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

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

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

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

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

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

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

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

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

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

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.