Top 1200 Modern Britain Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Captain Britain is not about representing an empire, he's about standing up for everyone and fighting for the betterment of all.

Britain is multicultural and it will become more multicultural, not less, and you have to think about who is on your team.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.

We've done 'Britain's Got Talent' and we work well with Simon Cowell and have done for years.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

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

I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.

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

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.

The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

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

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

Britain and Churchill fought not solely in the name of liberty and democracy, but also with the intention of maintaining the empire, defending vital interests and remaining a great power.

The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

I absolutely love Piers Morgan and there's absolutely no point in watching 'Good Morning Britain' if he's not on it.

In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.

I know one day I will be the world heavyweight champion and that Britain will be proud of me.

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

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

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement ground to a halt.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.