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“she could only hope these visitors from the stars were as benign and enlightened as the British explorers who landed upon heathen islands, bringing…

— Samuel Peralta

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire…

— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them.”

— Charles Doolittle Walcott

“Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence.”

— John le Carré

“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them.…

— E.M. Forster

“She'd never thought of it as a colony. Instead it had been invaded, occupied, enslaved. She supposed colonized was more palatable to those who'd…

— Meljean Brook

“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical…

— Elizabeth Aston

“Why is it that treasures become junk when there's no place to put them?”

— Courtney Pierce

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The British were highly skilled counterfeiters, and one of their favorite ways to attack the Americans was by depreciating colonial currency.”

— Brian Kilmeade

“She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She…

— H.G. Wells