Britain Quotes - Page 27

• How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

  James Payn

  Educational, Judging, Gentleman

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Evil, Canada

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

  Jeff Stelling

  Places To Live, Behinds, Middlesbrough

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• I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Jobs, War

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

  Robin Leach

  Wine, Weekend, Land

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• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Taken, Optimistic

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• Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

  Evan Davis

  Aerospace, Phones, Car

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• That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

  Robert Winston

  Philosophy, Past, Church

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, Class, Play

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• Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Law, Land

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• The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

  Joseph Hume

  World, Corn, Advantage

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• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  Michael King

  Strong, Children, Home

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Mother, Horse, Work Out

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• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Art, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

  Timothy Dalton

  Growing Up, Three, Brilliant

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• It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

  David Walliams

  Fun, Hard Work, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

  David Walliams

  Two, Lunch, Eight

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Black

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• In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Politics, France

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Europe is my continent, not my country

  John Redwood

  Country, Europe, Continents

  John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing

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• We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

  Anthony Eden

  Fighting, Europe, Long

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (2005). “The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957”, p.167, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Europe, Bounds

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• They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

  John Major

  Europe, Moved, Subservience

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