261 Quotes About Britain
- Author Jennifer Morgan
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My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.
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- Author Michael McGrath
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We are delighted to be named as the Preferred Supplier of Ferry Services to The Ryder Cup 2006 which promises to be one of the greatest sporting occasions that Ireland has ever witnessed. Out extensive route network and choice of craft between Britain and Ireland has helped us secure this prestigious contract.
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- Author Natalie Massenet
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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- Author Neel Mukherjee
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
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- Author Neil MacGregor
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Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer.
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- Author Nelson Mandela
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I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,
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- Author Pankaj Mishra
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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- Author Roger Morris
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They will make Britain a place where we cannot do clinically relevant research,
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- Author Simon McBurney
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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.
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