Any Quote by John Oliver

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

— John Oliver

“But Empire building also bears the seeds of its own destruction. The closer a state comes to the ultimate goal of world domination and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“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

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

— Pat Robertson

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative,…

— Isaac Asimov

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians…

— Linda Colley

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

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

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley