Financial crisis Quote by Ken Follett

“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

“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.”

— P G Wodehouse

“Emerson abandoned irony for blunt and passionate speech. 'This war has been a monumental blunder from the start! Britain is not solely responsible, but…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a week or…

— P.J. Sidey

“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

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

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

— John Lanchester

“There were no winners during times of war. All suffered.”

— Hunting Prince Dracula, Kerri Maniscalco

“Perhaps there is something good that had come from this war: everything has been turned around, all the unfairness made grimly plain. It has…

— Jennifer Ryan

“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

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy,…

— Sharon Kay Penman