261 Quotes About Britain

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

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

After plans had been drawn up by British intelligence to sabotage ships bringing {Jewish] refugees to Palestine - and pin blame on an apparently powerful but non-existent Arab organization - the British took more direct action... It was clear that Britain would stop at nothing to maintain its interests abroad- and think nothing of others in the process.

Until modern times it was as easy to travel across water as it was across land, where roads were frequently unusable.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

It was so difficult to dress appropriately when the seasons changed – the British weather was the nothing if not erratic. Spring was the worst – freezing in Brighton this morning and then practically tropical in Knightsbridge in the afternoon.

Like most cities, London could be a lonely place...