Top 452 UK Quotes & Sayings

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

The UK is a very international country.

Prayer for the city is important. For every city in the world, the city should be prayed for. Particularly for London, it is a strategic city for the UK as well as the world, therefore the future of London is significant to the UK, and also the rest of the world.

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

People in Scotland want to have Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU, and that's what the Liberal Democrats are arguing for.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.

The UK has no input in Afrobeat. Let me make myself very clear. The UK has no influence in the creation or naming or anything that has to do with Afrobeat' roots or beginnings.

In the UK, everyone's quite conservative. No-one wants to look like a fan.

I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

I want to give [Donald Trump] a very clear picture of the UK. Also, I believe what will come out of this is a very clear determination on both sides not just to maintain the special relationship but also to build it for the future. There is a real role for the UK and the US working together.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Carrick has a big cycling culture and I would compare it to the Isle of Man in the UK.

The UK is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the UK which I love.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

I always dreamed of playing for the UK since I grew a huge UK fan but once I started visiting schools I fell in love with Miami University and decided it was the right place for me.

Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

The UK is the number one destination in European Union for inward investment, the World Bank has ranked the UK as the sixth easiest place in he world to do business, so any organisation that makes promises about investment in the UK should live up to those promises.

There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

[Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.

It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

You won't find anyone in the UK who doesn't admire what Germany has become. The bilateral relationship between London and Berlin will become more important in the future, and the UK government wants Germany to grow stronger - for Europe's sake. It is in Britain's national interest that the EU succeeds, and Prime Minster Theresa May knows this.

Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK, I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, "We've taught you Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare, you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial."

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see Baywatch.

The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.

I'm going to be very clear in everything we do. I believe the special relationship is important to us, it's important more widely across Europe and the world. But I will also be very clear in the decisions I take and the conversations I have about UK interests. I'm not going to say anything different to Donald Trump to what I'm saying to you in terms of UK interests and where those lie.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

The good thing about coming over to the UK is that I can get some rest.

I think 'ex-model,' especially in the UK, smacks of being shallow and stupid and having no soul.

Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.

What's depressing, in a way, thinking of Margaret Thatcher legacy - and she was no doubt great in many ways - but the arts in the UK are still having to justify that it is a profitable business rather than a frivolity. It's one of the greatest UK exports, one of the reasons people come to the UK, and yet we're still having to justify our existence in terms of funding.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

The rules that the United States introduce will be obviously be rules for the United States, but I'm very clear about the opportunities I expect everyone in the UK to have. I will be representing the interests of everyone in the UK on a whole range of things we will talk about.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.