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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. — Shashi Tharoor

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not. — June Callwood

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you. — Dom DeLuise

You can't hurt a man with a pinprick when he's already got a spear in his chest. — Anonymous

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. — Prem Kishore

Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?" the lady asked, awed at the queen's adventures. "No, I am no longer afraid of life. — Constance Jagodzinski

Oh, come on. You eye-hump him all through British History. — Cynthia Hand

British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology. — Tom Turner

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. — Jean-Marc Vallee

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. — Rita Ora

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them. — Alison Weir

The wisest fool in Christendom. — King James I

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement. — Abdul Kalam

Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics. — A.E. Samaan

Girls must be thwarted early in life. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on. — Eric Bana

I managed to escape the NKVD while sitting right in front of them. — Ruta Sepetys

I am the eye with which the Universe / Beholds itself, and knows it is divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied. — Amitav Ghosh

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle. — Arthur Nicholson

The days are numbered for those bums over in England."
German Tank commander — Leo McKinstry

If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale. — Gordon Gee

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. — Luke Ford

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

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals. — Harry Shearer

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness. — Reese Witherspoon

I'm from East Texas, yes. — Margo Martindale

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better. — Robin Wright

The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go. — Wallace Stevens

I feed the branches of the people. — Kanye West

I am not the I that you see. Most of these quotes do not belong to me. — Gautama Buddha

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. — Jean Rhys

I did not like the thing in me which he had been able to seduce. — Christa Wolf