Adult Quote by J. G. Ballard

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the…

— Cornel West

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the…

— Doris Lessing

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to…

— J. G. Ballard

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic…

— Rana Mitter

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

— Pat Robertson

“He hadn’t finished: ‘Let us bring down our righteous anger against the festering scum who by their cowardice and sloth have reduced the British…

— John Sweeney

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

— John Oliver

“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has…

— Valerie Fitzgerald

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves…

— John Amery