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“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark”

— Shashi Tharoor

“Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“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

“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”

— Stuart Hall

“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully…

— Jules Verne

“It’s the obvious, painful example, yes. The scandalous thing, really, is that I do not believe the English are the most superior beings to…

— Maya Rodale

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people…

— Winston Churchill

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

“There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered foreign, as…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“British Empire had demonstrated that there was no greater blind spot on its map of benevolence than the conquered land closest to home.”

— Tim Egan

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

“India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have…

— Angana P. Chatterji