Best British Empire Quotes
53 British Empire quotes by 38 unique authors
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
— Robert Trout
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
— Nick Hornby
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am now a commander of the British Empire.
— Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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