“If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden”
Lord North
“It used to be Britain and Ireland but more and more it is Australia and New Zealand. I think a lot of it has to do with the exchange rate, the pound is high and even the Euro is high, the Australian dollar is much better.”
Bridget Carey
“When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken”
Winston Churchill
“If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.”
Tony Blair
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
Gordon Brown
“After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.”
George Harrison
“The biggest attraction in Britain is Britain - the whole package. Our heritage is not just a collection of ornaments scattered across the country, it is Britain itself and makes us gloriously distinguishable from any other country.”
Bill Bryson
