British Citizen Quotes

#1. My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali.

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#2. The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe ... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.

Gordon Brown

#3. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Stephen Hawking

#4. It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

Heather Brooke

#5. Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Rose Byrne

#6. Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

Richard Wagner

#7. Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

Margaret Way

#8. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

William Safire

#9. Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#10. The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

Neil MacGregor

#11. Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.

Emma Ghent Curtis

#12. I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.

Charles Kennedy

#13. A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

Doug Ose

#14. There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

James Callaghan

#15. Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Samuel Richardson