“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.” — George Orwell 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
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“British Empire had demonstrated that there was no greater blind spot on its map of benevolence than the conquered land closest to… — Tim Egan Copy Share Image
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker 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 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 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
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
“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
“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
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated… — Sathnam Sanghera Copy Share Image
One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill 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
“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
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls 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
“People still said that “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire,” even though the Commonwealth was starting to come apart. In… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two 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
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
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
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children. — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than… — Saul David 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
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
![“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/quotes/i/747/erik-brynjolfsson-9007_british-empire_i-tried-to-look-at-where-did-the-kind-of_2038347.jpg)
