Best British Empire Quotes

53 British Empire quotes by 38 unique authors

• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout
• Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world… — Cecil Rhodes
• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the… — Joan Collins
• Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which… — Stockwell Day
• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and… — James Larkin
• When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. — Doris Lessing
• You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all… — Doris Lessing
• At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in… — Salman Rushdie
• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby
• I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making… — Haruki Murakami
• What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,… — Winston Churchill
• When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other… — Doris Lessing
• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of… — F. Sionil Jose
• Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we… — Antony Beevor
• I am now a commander of the British Empire. — Kevin Spacey
• However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the… — Neville Chamberlain
• The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America… — Arthur Henderson
• The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India,… — Robert Trout
• 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
• You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a… — Antony Sher
• To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British… — Cecil Rhodes
• Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised… — Cecil Rhodes

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38 authors contributed a total of 53 British Empire Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 British Empire Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 5 British Empire Quotes by Cecil Rhodes
• 3 British Empire Quotes by Doris Lessing
• 2 British Empire Quotes by Robert Trout
• 2 British Empire Quotes by Neville Chamberlain
• 1 British Empire Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 British Empire Quote by Stockwell Day
• 1 British Empire Quote by Steven Spielberg
• 1 British Empire Quote by Stephen Colbert
• 1 British Empire Quote by Stafford Cripps
• 1 British Empire Quote by Simon Schama
• 1 British Empire Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 British Empire Quote by Pat Buchanan
• 1 British Empire Quote by Nick Hornby
• 1 British Empire Quote by Mak_786
• 1 British Empire Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 British Empire Quote by Kevin Spacey
• 1 British Empire Quote by Kesha
• 1 British Empire Quote by Ken Loach
• 1 British Empire Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 British Empire Quote by June Jordan
• 1 British Empire Quote by John Oliver
• 1 British Empire Quote by John Henrik Clarke
• 1 British Empire Quote by John Burgoyne
• 1 British Empire Quote by John Boyd Orr