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