Am Quote by Kevin Spacey

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just…

— Antony Sher

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels…

— Christopher Koch

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant. We conquered…

— William Joynson-Hicks

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win,…

— Kurt Schrader

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is…

— Rudolf Nureyev

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't…

— Alice Oswald

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

— Arthur L. Herman

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of…

— Arthur Henderson

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 seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of…

— Robert Trout

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

— Linda Colley