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The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result. — Lavie Tidhar

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year. — Saul David

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. — Doris Lessing

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. — Gary Oldman

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. — Archibald Primrose

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg

How could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding? — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more. — Michael Dobbs

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright

The Roman Empire, Vikings, British, Spanish, Portuguese,... all raped women, but it always seems worse when done to us. — Daniel Marques

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. — Nick Harkaway

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. — Karl Marx

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. — Oswald Mosley

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. — Winston Churchill

I am now a commander of the British Empire. — Kevin Spacey

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell

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

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. — John Oliver

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby