British Isles Quotes

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

I've always been passionate about England.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I can't wait to get over to the U.K. for my first time ever. I've always heard how amazing the fans are over there - looking forward to experiencing it for myself.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I'm proud to be British.

When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

I've always liked England.

The West shall be free from the British Isles.

I like England, but L.A.'s warmer.

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.