People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
“By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.' — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever, whether it's Greece, Rome or the British Empire. It doesn't mean that America has to end. The country could… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“The world of 1906...was a stable and a civilized world in which the greatness and authority of Britain and her Empire seemed… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. To maintain power in the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . .… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“One man who did not understand was the New Zealanders’ legendary commander, Lieutenant General Bernard C. Freyberg. English-born but raised in New… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the… — Tim Buck Copy Share Image
The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha Copy Share Image
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
![“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . . . It came from . . . the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet, [the British Empire]. What they did was amazing. They created a global computer made up of people. It’s still with us today…” quote by Erik Brynjolfsson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/747/erik-brynjolfsson-9007_british-empire_i-tried-to-look-at-where-did-the-kind-of_2038347.jpg)
