Top 100 U K Quotes
#1. The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will.
Theresa May
#2. When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
Alexa Chung
#3. I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.
Estelle
#4. I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
Charles Kennedy
#5. Only the U.K. can trigger Article 50. And in my judgement, we should only do that when there is a clear view about what new arrangements we are seeking with our European neighbours.
George Osborne
#6. In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
James Dyson
#7. I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.
Estelle
#8. In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.
Kristen Schaal
#9. I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.
Nigel Lawson
#10. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.
Alain Ducasse
#11. I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.
Tiesto
#12. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
Manfred Mann
#13. The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
Mark Rutte
#14. While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
Michael K. Simpson
#15. I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.
Tom Felton
#16. In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
Ian McKellen
#17. When u go on social media today please make sure to make my death all about u k thanks
Prince
#18. I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
Austin Mahone
#19. The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.
Johann Lamont
#20. The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
Geoff Mulgan
#22. I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
David Mackay
#23. Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
Kate Thompson
#24. I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.
John Corey Whaley
#25. It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
Eric Fellner
#26. Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.
Nicola Sturgeon
#27. The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.
Peter Uihlein
#28. I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Maajid Nawaz
#29. We are ensuring that we are checking people who are coming in to the U.K.
Theresa May
#30. My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
Samuel Barnett
#31. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
Shereen El Feki
#32. Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.
Jim Ratcliffe
#33. No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.
George Osborne
#34. More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
Najib Razak
#35. Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.
Lee Daniels
#36. Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Eric Fellner
#37. The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
Nick Harkaway
#38. Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.
Sarah Hall
#39. For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.
George Osborne
#40. People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
Bianca Jagger
#41. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
T.K. Naliaka
#42. Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.
Nicola Sturgeon
#43. We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
Mike Duke
#44. The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.
Rory McIlroy
#45. U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Ingrid Newkirk
#46. Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
Tiny Rowland
#47. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
Jemima Khan
#48. I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
Jim Ratcliffe
#49. Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
Rory Bremner
#50. It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known - that dynamic, creative spirit.
Theresa May
#51. As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
Samantha Harvey
#52. I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.
Vincent Tan
#53. The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
Mark Rutte
#54. U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.
Nicola Sturgeon
#55. When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
Darren Criss
#57. Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
Peter Hargreaves
#58. The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
Damian Marley
#59. What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.
Katy B
#60. I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#61. Sticky toffee pudding is my favorite dessert in the U.K.
Eve
#62. We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.
Theresa May
#63. The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#64. I think we need to come up with a child-friendly phrase for f-u-c-k off."
"Duck off?"
"Exactly. Braden, duck off, you sarcastic dastard.
Samantha Young
#65. I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.
Eddie Izzard
#66. We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
Beeban Kidron
#67. I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.
Vincent Tan
#68. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra
#69. The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
Nicola Sturgeon
#70. I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande ... there's a very long list.
Fleur East
#71. A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.
Mike Leigh
#72. One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.
Rory Bremner
#73. I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.
Michael Gambon
#74. I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#75. I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
Lenny Abrahamson
#76. My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.
Ellie Goulding
#77. You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.
Michael Palin
#78. I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
James Gray
#79. I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.
Harry Styles
#80. We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the U.K., the more cross-fertilization there is that's perhaps changing.
Rosamund Pike
#81. It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
Jacki Weaver
#82. Over 600 Indian companies have opened their offices in U.K. and have secured the second highest number of jobs by a foreign employer in the U.K.
Preneet Kaur
#83. Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#84. In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
Prince Andrew
#85. If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass!
Hidekaz Himaruya
#86. The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.
Brian Wilson
#87. The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.
Jim Ratcliffe
#88. 'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.
Suzi Quatro
#89. In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.
Sean Quinn
#90. One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#91. I just think it's super amazing that the U.K. fans are so dedicated and loving. I love them, and being with them in person is an amazing feeling.
Austin Mahone
#92. 'The Good Wife' has actually been something, ironically, that I've watched since episode one, season one in the U.K. because it came up when I was in drama school. I always watched it. It was kind of like an actor's show.
Cush Jumbo
#93. By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
David Mackay
#94. I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.
Muhammad Ali
#95. I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.
Tom Parker Bowles
#96. The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
Ted Sarandos
#97. There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.
Jamie Lawson
#98. My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.
Martin Parr
#99. I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#100. Sir P. C. Roy's History of Hindu Chemistry, in B. N. Seal's Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus, in B. K. Sarkar's Hindu Achievements in Exact Science and his The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology, and in U. C. Dutt's Materia Medica of the Hindus. 2
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