British Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy

“Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it,…

— Neil Gaiman

“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.’ Charles de Gaulle.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader…

— William R. Forstchen

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“Of France and England, did this king succeed; Whose state so many had the managing. That they lost France and made his England bleed.”

— William Shakespeare

There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

— Julian Barnes

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise.…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.”

— Max Brooks

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo