261 Quotes About Britain



  • Author Julian Fellowes
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    The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

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  • Author Sebastian Faulks
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    I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

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  • Author Vito Fossella
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    Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.

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  • Author Romola Garai
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    It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

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  • Author Stefano Gabbana
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    I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.

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  • Author Adam Hochschild
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    I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

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  • Author Harold Edward Holt
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    The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

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