Top 1200 British Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
Explore popular British Empire quotes.
Last updated on December 11, 2024.
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.
In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.
rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.
The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.
I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.
The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.
The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.
I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
The only way to keep the British economy secure is to leave the E.U.
British summers give me a really happy feeling.
I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.
I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
I would pay good money for a British accent.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not!
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.
I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt.
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
