British history Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

— Rudyard Kipling

An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of…

— Linda Colley

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way…

— Russell A. Peck

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

— Samuel Johnson

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not…

— Simon Schama

Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship…

— David Cannadine

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit…

— Billy Bragg

“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was…

— Charlotte Brontë

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor…

— Linda Colley

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was…

— David Starkey

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley