In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.” — Arthur Nicholson Copy Share Image
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the… — Anton Walbrook Copy Share Image
“Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?” the lady asked, awed at the queen’s adventures. “No, I am no… — Constance Jagodzinski Copy Share Image
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Britain: A nation that keeps a stiff upper lip, takes it on the chin without complaining, plays fair at all times and… — Seán Gearárd McCloskey Copy Share Image
Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
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