Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britain has learned that there is no harm is selling your local champions to foreigners.

Britain has come on tenfold, but to be selfish about it we're all Scottish at the moment. It's about us. We'll go back to the British thing in a bit, but for the moment we've got to take all the praise and all the success for Scotland until we go back to competing for Britain because we don't get to compete for Scotland very often. We want to make the most of it, so I'm not having any of the limelight taken away by Britain at the moment, to be honest.

Sam Taylor-Wood

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

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

There's no doubt in my mind that Kirk is a Great Britain player in the making. He's developing from a follower into a player who leads others. He has great presence and I'm just pleased he's in my team and I don't have to work out ways to stop him.

Gurinder Chadha

'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.

Robin Cook

We want to ensure there is an end to drug trafficking and an end to the violence, ... Britain is keen to support Colombia.

Helen Clark

To have two big and powerful countries like the United States and Britain to walk outside the framework... there is going to be lot of soul searching now at the United Nations' Security Council, and within NATO, and within the European Union about what this means for the future,

Helen Sharman

The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.

Gordon Brown

I sense a new spirit in Britain: that the people of Britain want this massive demonstration of generosity to be given enduring purpose.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Ann Veneman

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Ken Livingstone

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Jason Priestley

I love filming in Britain.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Clearly Britain cannot be an objective mediator on the Cyprus problem. Britain no longer has the required credibility.

George W. Bush

And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.

Ephraim Mirvis

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

Martin Parr

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

It's been the premier resort in Britain if not Europe for many years,

Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.

Michael Apted

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Romola Garai

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

It was a tough game to play, coming off the back end of exams and an emotional victory over New Britain on Martin Luther King Day. We played well enough to take care of business. I'm not happy or upset with our effort.

This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Kate Hudson

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

Aidan Turner

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

They will make Britain a place where we cannot do clinically relevant research,

Simon McBurney

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Richard Owen

In scholarly circles, it has long been unfashionable to demonize Judas and Catholics in Britain are likely to welcome Judas's rehabilitation.

Michael Ignatieff

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.