Colonialism Quote by Mrs. Ernest Ames

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...”

— Mohsin Hamid

“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

“Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own…

— Thomas Pynchon

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

— Tony Blair

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

“British Empire had demonstrated that there was no greater blind spot on its map of benevolence than the conquered land closest to home.”

— Tim Egan

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

“What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely…

— Joseph Conrad

“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy