261 Quotes About Britain

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember.

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

One if by land, two if by sea.

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

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

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