British Patriotism Quotes

#1. I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

Arthur Balfour

#2. Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they're people!

Bill Maher

#3. I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

Johann Hari

#4. And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue

Carol Ann Duffy

#5. 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

#6. It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

George Galloway

#7. IT'S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'

no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.

Andy Carrington

#8. We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right there!" shouted one of them.
Skulduggery held his hand to an ear he didn't have.
"What's that?"
"Stop!"
"Keep going?"
"STOP!"
"OK, we'll keep going.

Derek Landy

#9. Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns

#10. But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

Buchi Emecheta

#11. I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Cory Booker

#12. What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

David Blunkett

#13. Can't take no pride in that flagpole

and you can stick your fucking STARBUCKS
up your tight middle-
class
arseholes.

Andy Carrington

#14. It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

Marquis De Lafayette

#15. However British you may be, I am more British still.

Henry James

#16. All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

C.S. Lewis

#17. It is the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the lover into God, and no human being can live up to that.

Timothy Keller