British empire Quote by John Sweeney

“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim…

— Paul Cornell

“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

“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”

— Ben Mitchell

“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

“And what if Britain lost? There would be a financial crisis, unemployment, and destitution. Working-class men would take up Ethel’s father’s cry and say…

— Ken Follett

“I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people and mounds…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I am not a terrorist. The death of the innocent is not something I take pleasure in—unlike you people. But hard choices must be…

— Stephen England

“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of working-single-parent distraction--who…

— Lionel Shriver

“Do you men still know how to fight?” he (GW) roared. A primal cry erupted around him. “Then fall in and show those redcoats…

— Newt Gingrich

“It’s that great British middle-class battle cry: “Something must be done!”

— John Lanchester

“They denounced him for his “Parliamentary Cretinism” and accused him of “providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People’s Consciousness and diverting…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Robert Trout