#britain

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

#coming #express #finding #funny #funny people

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#back #britain #forward #lean #like

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

#britain #cars #chips #defense #designing

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#britain #enjoy #hard #i #life

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#britain #cannot #contributed #hugely #immigrants

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#again #ages #america #appearing #band

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. ↗

— George Mikes

#british #england #great #great britain #isles

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #bulk #businesspeople #contribution #country