Bores Quote by Edward Bond Download Open image “The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.” — Edward Bond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bores Punishment
That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.” — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
