British empire Quote by Tim Egan

“... 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

“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

“The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world.”

— Shashi Tharoor

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first…

— Mary Balogh

“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English…

— Christopher Hitchens

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

“But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's…

— Stephen Green

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

— Edward Enninful

“the map was one thing and the land quite another.”

— George R.R. Martin

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and…

— Julian Baggini