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

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish. — Quentin Crisp

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. — Eric Burdon

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. — Jeremy Paxman

If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass! — Hidekaz Himaruya

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue. — Thom Yorke

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. — Julian Barnes

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins

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

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission. — Helen Sharman

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. — Alistair Cooke

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala. — Aasif Mandvi

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. — Rolf Harris

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. — Bashar Al-Assad

Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened. — Bernard Cornwell

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America. — Stephen Hawking

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater) — Kristen Britain

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. — Noam Chomsky

Europe existed before Britain joined it. — Francois Hollande

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. — Mike Crapo

I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country. — Kristen Britain

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain. — Andrew Marr

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me. — Carol Thatcher

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds. — Kristen Britain

Britain's fashion industry employs more people and makes more money than do its car or steel industries. — John Howkins

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today — Francis Maude

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month. — Niall Ferguson

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Madam C. J. Walker

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

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe. — Jose Manuel Barroso

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. — Frank Portman

We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in. — Ruth Davidson

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. — Sharon Osbourne

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India. — Mahatma Gandhi

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. — Jeremy Hardy

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is. — Ann Coulter

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki — Nigel Starmer-Smith

Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable — Diane Samuels

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. — Rosamund Pike

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. — David Miliband

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain. — Charlie Cox

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

Brain of Britain!" "If — David Walliams

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. — Naomie Harris

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. — Buchi Emecheta

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over. — Lucy Powell

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union. — Angela Merkel

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard. — Gordon Strachan

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

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

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites... — Darcus Howe

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again. — Johnny Vegas

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber. — Felix Dennis

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness. — Andrew O'Hagan

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. — Jacques Delors

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. — Gordon Brown

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. — Peter Mandelson

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. — Norman Tebbit

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain. — Felicia Day

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

In Britain, everything is policed except crime. — Mark Steyn

Europe is my continent, not my country — John Redwood

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

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold Macmillan

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. — John Oliver

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy. — Boris Johnson

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. — Anton Du Beke

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

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

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. — Olivia Hussey

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. — Cindy Sheehan

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound. — Jean-Claude Juncker

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country. — Theresa May

Tara: So what does "Captain Britain's agent" actually do?
Wisdom: Between you and me, Tara, it's work, work, work. I'm in charge of Brian's hair. — Paul Cornell

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure. — Hugh Bonneville

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain. — Bill Maher

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. — Michael Gove

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. — Eamon De Valera

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

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

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

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

One if by land, two if by sea. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea. — Winston Churchill

Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain. — Adolf Hitler

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen. — Jeff Cooper

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. — Geoff Mulgan

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon. — Goran Ivanisevic

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes. — Annie Lennox

What Britain needs is an iron lady. — Margaret Thatcher

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last. — Winston Churchill

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal. — Andrew O'Hagan