Britain Non-Independence Day
Why the Brits don't have an Independence Day
Celebrating other country victories
QuotaBillsIndependence is happiness. - Susan B Anthony
Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson
What Britain needs is an iron lady. - Margaret Thatcher
England is a nation of shopkeepers. - Napoleon Bonaparte
He was not only a bore; he bored for England. - Malcolm Muggeridge
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. - Lord Burleigh
Britain's goal is not to survive, but to prevail. - Winston Churchill
Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you. - Alan Bennett
The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable. - Malcolm Muggeridge
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north. - Robert Gordon Menzies
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki. - Nigel Starmer-Smith
There'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. - Bob Hope
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. - Francesco Caracciolo
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. - W Somerset Maugham
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. - Harold MacMillan
England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. - Jules Michelet
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. - Arthur Murphy
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes
The noblest prospect which a Scotsman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. - Samuel Johnson
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle
Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. - Martin Amis
There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means. - Calvin Coolidge
Larry Gogan: 'With what town in Britain is Shakespeare associated?'
Contestant: 'Hamlet'. - Larry Gogan
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno
If it is good to have one foot in England, it is still better, or at least as good, to have the other out of it. - Henry James
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry, and he's got Mad Power Disease. - Paula Abdul
We so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. - Ellen Glasgow
No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence. Ya know, "Fourscore and 7 years ago." - Archie Bunker
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin