Britain Quotes

I don’t believe in Black majority rule ever—not even in 1000 years.

The Indian independence leaders, Nehru, Gandhi and others, were products of the West.

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

Sir, I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Gloucester, and to surrender the troops under my command, by capitulation on the 19th inst. as prisoners of war to the combined forces of America and France.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries. The Russians, unlike the British, are not blamed for defending themselves by warlike means, and indeed all pacifist propaganda of this type avoids mention of Russia or China.

Holy war for Muslims is a religious war, and a religious war is something you never stop fighting.

The United States is like a giant steam generator. Once the fire has been lighted under it, there is no limit to the amount of power it can generate.

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.

Britain is an amazing multicultural place to live in, and that should be celebrated and represented.

The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain.

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

America—not Britain—has a use for the telephone. Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys, and things of that kind.

I'm a British patriot. What matters is what is in Britain's national interest?

For the moment it appeared to me that the United States was trying to save itself at the expense of Britain.

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

if Britain's resident ayatollahs can not accept British values and laws then there is no reason at all why the British should feel any need, still less compulsion, to accommodate theirs.

I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.