Beast Quote by Linda Colley

I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's…

— Rhianna Pratchett

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

— Alistair Cooke

The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for some in…

— Linda Colley

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

— Linda Colley

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much…

— Linda Colley

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

— Linda Colley

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were…

— Ryan Bingham

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is…

— Graham Harman

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

— John Malkovich

“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that…

— Christopher Rankin