Britain Quotes - Page 34

• Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Strong, War, Germany

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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Drama, Reality, Detectives

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• I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Tired, Long, Needs

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Humble, Pie, Littles

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• In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

  Bella Abzug

  Government, President, Answers

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• I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

  Frank Oz

  Years, Nine, British

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Cities, Earth

  "John Cleese joins 7.30". Interview with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. August 31, 2011.

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• Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Weather, Climate, England

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• [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Suggestions, Republic, Want

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• A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Islands, Opposites

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• The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

  James Lane Allen

  Book, Virginia, Remembrance

  James Lane Allen (2016). “The reign of law. A tale of the Kentucky hemp fields.”, p.2, Aegitas

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• Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Jew, Has Beens

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• There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

  Eve Ensler

  America, Different, Way

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.

  Dale Spender

  Running, Book, Past

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• Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

  Rosamund Pike

  People, Want, Limits

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• I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

  Brendan Coyle

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

  Charlie Cox

  New York, Missing, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

  Charlie Cox

  Careers, Roots, Tvs

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• I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Cheer, Goes On, Unions

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1865). “Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union”, p.282, London : Chapman and Hall

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• I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  America, Law, One Day

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

  Cat Deeley

  Ambition, Ashamed, Ifs

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• I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

  Lennie James

  Drama, Two, Ghost Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Believe, Mean

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• Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Government, Royalty

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 3, l. [46]

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