The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Happy Independence Day to Pakistan! On this day sixty-six years ago the country gained sovereignty from the British Empire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout 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 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
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen 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
“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back. “Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
A society which should have members in every part of the British Empire working with one object and one idea we should… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
A nationally known advertising man wrote me theother day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill’s excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister’s loyalty to a decaying British… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each… — George VI Copy Share Image
The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this… — John Burgoyne Copy Share Image
