Top 1200 Modern Britain Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

That's what we're taught to do in Britain - you protect your castle.

Britain's energy markets were a mess in 2010.

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

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

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

I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

Britain has never been proud of Bros.

Europe existed before Britain joined it.

My job is to stop Britain from going red.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.

The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.

In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Britain is at its best when we stand up for the values that we believe in.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

Britain is less European-minded than Greece.

I love Britain, but I've only been to the obvious places.

In the era of modern technology, people could just vote on their phones for who they want to be judges. We could amend all of the ways in which we select our leaders, with the advent of modern technology. We haven't done so. It's actually served us fairly well. Ours is the longest enduring constitutional, written constitution in the world. At the moment, I think it's strained. It's showing the strains of politics and a frustration.

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

I like Britain because that is where boxing was born.

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

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