Britain Quotes - Page 30

• Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

  Lewis Pugh

  Soccer, Player, Littles

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• The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Photography, Fashion, Drama

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

  Robert Reich

  Class

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Egypt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• 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

  Names, America, People

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

  Francis Maude

  Optimism, Tunes, Want

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• If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Europe, Important

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• My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.

  Jonathan Raban

  Marine, Sky, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

  Henry Kirke White

  Weed, Solitude, Savages

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490

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• Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

  George Osborne

  Simple, Needs, Rich

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• I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Rights, People

  "Balancing freedom and security - a modern British Bill of Rights". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2006.

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• British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Believe, Fall

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• If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.

  David Hare

  Running, Country, War

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Ambassadors, Greater

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• Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

  St. Jerome

  Tyrants, Land, People

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• Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

  Alexander Pope

  War, Greek, Gold

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.166

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• The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  John Quincy Adams's Oration delivered at Plymouth at The Anniversary Commemoration of The Landing Of The Pilgrims, December 22, 1802.

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• When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Europe

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

  David Chipperfield

  Architecture, Lasting, Bargains

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• I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

  David Chipperfield

  Engineering, Years, Cake

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.

  David Chipperfield

  Eye, Self, Media

  "In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Connections

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.203

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• The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

  John Arbuthnot

  Home, Race, Land

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• And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.

  George W. Bush

  Britain And America, People, Challenges

  President Bush, Tony Blair Hold a Joint News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 2006.

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• In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

  Eddie Izzard

  Powerful, Tears, Dresses

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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