Britain Quotes

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) I...

England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

The other day I happened to be reading a careful, interesting account of the state of British higher...

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were ...

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

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

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school bo...

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person...

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very e...

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society...

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative an...

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to fe...

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means...

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a poin...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Ma...

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay ...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on ut...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

Jane, who is much better at reading guide books than I am (I always read them on the way back to see...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayone...

It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and t...

One if by land, two if by sea.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps...

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse'...