British History Quotes
Collection of top 38 famous quotes about British History
British History Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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 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
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
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
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
— Ernest Bevin
