All Quotes

Britain can choose, as others are, short term fixes and more stimulus. Or we can lead the world with long-term solutions to long-term problems.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain can only spend what it can afford.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.
‐‐ Sarah Harrison

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
‐‐ Mary Quant

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
‐‐ Ephraim Mirvis

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
‐‐ Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.
‐‐ Richard Stanley

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget.
‐‐ Robert Kagan

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.
‐‐ Princess Beatrice of York

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.
‐‐ Graham Moore

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
‐‐ David Hockney

Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.
‐‐ George Osborne

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

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
‐‐ Andrew Mitchell

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Britain is less European-minded than Greece.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
‐‐ Vince Cable

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
‐‐ David Cameron

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.
‐‐ Stormzy

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.
‐‐ Marcus Brigstocke

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell weapons, and our responsibility ends as soon as they leave the country; they're unpacked, and then before you know it, they're spread around the world.
‐‐ Paul Conroy

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
‐‐ Catherine McCormack

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
‐‐ Charles Stross

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.
‐‐ Cherie Blair

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

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

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
‐‐ David Chipperfield

Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.
‐‐ George Osborne

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
‐‐ Jerry Weintraub

Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.
‐‐ John O'Keefe

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
‐‐ John Lydon

Britain's destiny lies in Europe.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
‐‐ James Dyson

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
‐‐ Heather Brooke