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The thing you notice here [Britain] after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. [on botox]
View quotes by Ian McKellen

[Britain needs] a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants
View quotes by George Osborne

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.
View quotes by Melanie

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
View quotes by Angela Carter

Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land.
View quotes by Francis X Clines

I'm sure the fact that John Prescott has ordered the building of 991 new homes will be a great comfort to Britain's 100,000 homeless families, let alone the 500,000 living in overcrowded housing.
View quotes by Sarah Teather

I am delighted and honoured to receive this award in recognition of my award [on receiving a knighthood for... well, no-one in Britain quite knows why]
View quotes by Salman Rushdie

We... here in Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy.
View quotes by Tony Blair

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
View quotes by Jon Stewart

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to
View quotes by Hannen Swaffer

I'm not upset I lost the Miss Great Britain title - I only entered for a bit of fun, but I am upset they dragged Ted into it and called us cheats.
View quotes by Danielle Lloyd

My successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
View quotes by Arthur Wellesley Wellington

It is fantastic, and I feel so honoured and privileged to win this gold medal [on being Britain's first of many gold medallists at the Beijing Olympics]
View quotes by Nicole Cook

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
View quotes by Peter Hain

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded. (Said before the biggest hurricane to hit Britain for decades)
View quotes by Michael Fish

All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Britain. There is a strong consensus on the need to defend our values. [on the London terrorist bombings, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Jose Manuel Barroso

The politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? (speech, 1980)
View quotes by Roy Jenkins

In the days that follow, look at our airports, look at our seaports, and look at our railway stations. And even after your cowardly attacks, people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential
View quotes by Ken Livingstone

The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward [after Election 2005]
View quotes by Robin Cook

All our hopes are pinned on one person - Paula Radcliffe. If Paula doesn't win gold then we are going to have a postmortem on this Olympic team. [she didn't win gold, but Britain came top 10 overall in 2004 Athens Olympics]
View quotes by Roger Black

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