Quotes About Britain

Only ignorant foreigners call it Bangkok, which hasn't been used in Thailand for more than two hundred years. For Europeans (and every single one of their encyclopedias) to go on calling the capital of Thailand Bangkok is a bit like Thais insisting that the capital of Britain is called Billingsgate or Winchester.

Between June 1 and August 1, 200,825 British soldiers in France, out of two million, were hit hard enough that they could not report for duty even in the midst of desperate combat. Then the disease was gone. On August 10, the British command declared the epidemic over. In Britain itself on August 20, a medical journal stated that the influenza epidemic "has completely disappeared.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

But what really sealed Britain's fate were similar attacks on the other side of the empire.

Britains [sic], up to now afflicted by various disasters and vicissitudes, were widely reduced to the rule of the Saxons.

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

So began the rule of the greatest king of eighth-century Britain,

But in Britain, as we've seen, civic life had collapsed completely in the early fifth century

The likeliest answer is that, by the time the Saxons came to settle in Britain, they found little that was worth preserving.

life in Britain before the arrival of the Romans was not necessarily any nicer,

and in witnessing the same grant he went even further, referring to himself as 'king of Britain'.

In AD 122, the emperor Hadrian visited Britain

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

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

The failure of the talks between Chamberlain and the German ambassador in London, the public and private outbursts of the Kaiser, the well-reported anti-British and pro-Boer sentiment among the German public, even the silly controversy over whether Chamberlain had insulted the Prussian army, all left their residue of mistrust and resentments in Britain as well as in Germany.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease – they've run out of other people's money.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain

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