Top 1200 Britain And America Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US - the world wants what Britain has to sell.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

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

Britain's Got Talent' isn't all that far from 'The Gong Show' 35 years ago, is it?

You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here, too. At least in America we're trying to deal with it.'

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.

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

I wasn't as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.

They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

Britain is a proud nation of entrepreneurs, and small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

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

Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.

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

No other country ties its hands in deporting foreign criminals as Britain does.

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.

I was born in America. I don't agree with 99.9 percent of the things America does around the world or at home, but I have no other home.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world.

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

Doing things like 'Extras' and 'Little Britain' keeps me in with the youngsters.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

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

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

I am particularly fond of Malaysian food but strangely its not that well known in Britain.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.