261 Quotes About Britain

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

There is no such thing as her majesty's government. You can either have his or her majesty or you can have government.

... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing fromSaturday morning. Brixton Market? No one is frowning atthe quality of the yams, or asking how the snapper's eye so cloudy. There'll be no Saturday soup tonight.

British government have always sold poverty as a character flaw rather than the fault of a society where the elite benefit and the rest make do.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

The British SonnetRule Britannia,Britannia rule the waves.Britons never, never, never,Shall be slaves.Around the world we looted,We even championed slavery.But none of it really matters,Consequences don't apply to royalty.Hitler massacred so many people,Which is petty compared to our atrocities.Perhaps that's why Britain is so great,None can compete with our killing spree.It's time to civilize this backward Britannia,By righting the wrongs of British Barbariana

Being British has a certain hard core to it, and the experience of being British in the late twentieth century is associated with a downward spiral, unique in its intensity among Western nations, in economic life, international standing, and internal political coherence.