Top Britain Quotes

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five year...

Frank Olson had joined the Special Operations Division of the Army's Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick at its inception in 1950. He was issued a Q clearance, the civilian equivalent of the militar...

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other allegiances...

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the...

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

One if by land, two if by sea.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expur...