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Britain's decision to send troops to the city did more to change the thinking of Bostonians than any step previously taken by London.
— John Ferling
But he's the king!
— Kristen Britain
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.
— Noam Chomsky
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies ... but it's a brutal world, man.
— Pete Doherty
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"
— Aphex Twin
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
— Scott Thompson
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
— Cynthia Payne
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
— Jill Lepore
People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
— David Miliband
I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
— Stefano Gabbana
There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.
— Frankie Boyle
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
— Miranda Richardson
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
— Bashar Al-Assad
I like being in a country where when cows attack, word of it gets around. That's what I mean when I say Britain is cozy.
— Bill Bryson
My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.
— April Pearson
Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos
— Saira Viola
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
— Noam Chomsky
Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?
— William Shakespeare
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.
— Francis Maude
In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States,
— John J. Ratey
Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
— Jonah Goldberg
I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
— Quentin Crisp
Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.
— Andy Serkis
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.
— Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.
— Kristen Britain
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
Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
— Charles Stross
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
— Clint Eastwood
Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.
— John Gimlette
In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.
— Winston S. Churchill
Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day
— Warren Ellis
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
— John Cleese
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
— Robert Carlyle
Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.
— Jim Crace
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Ringo Starr
I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.
— Theresa May
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.
— Trevor Phillips
This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
— Gordon Brown
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.
— Aasif Mandvi
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
— Charles Kennedy
In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
— Calvin Harris
All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.
— Andrew Mitchell
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
— Heather Brooke
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
— Robert Reich
Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted. — Robert Burns
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted. — Robert Burns
I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.
— Anton Du Beke
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
— Janet McTeer
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.
— Paul Potts
I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.
— Craig Ferguson
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.
— Edward Leigh
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
— Felix Dennis
We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do
— Ed Miliband
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
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
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
Britain's fashion industry employs more people and makes more money than do its car or steel industries.
— John Howkins
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki
— Nigel Starmer-Smith
Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable
— Diane Samuels
In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.
— Hugh Bonneville
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
— Eamon De Valera
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
One if by land, two if by sea.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Wisdom: Between you and me, Tara, it's work, work, work. I'm in charge of Brian's hair. — Paul Cornell
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
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
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation
— Tony Benn
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
— Marcus Buckingham
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
— Harold Macmillan
'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
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.
— Simon Cowell
Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558.
— Gordon S. Wood
There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.
— Kristen Britain
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
— Jennifer Ehle
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
— Matthew Rhys
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
— Tessa Jowell
Britain's relationship with America might be described as 'special', but only if by 'special' we mean 'frequently dysfunctional'.
— Ben Crystal
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
— John Lydon
I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America ... People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".
— Billy Connolly
I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
— Geri Halliwell
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
— James Dyson
The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
— Martin Jacques
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
— James Nesbitt
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
— Andrew Mitchell
Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from No Boundaries.
— Paul Xavier Jones
Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
— Salman Khurshid