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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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