British Quote by Robert Trout

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

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians…

— Linda Colley

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for…

— John Burgoyne

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

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

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

— Lord Harlech