921 British Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

History Will Nation Rule India Blackest Look Arms Depriving Act Many Whole Among British

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. Margaret Thatcher

Socialism Like Cure Trying Disease British

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. Cecil Rhodes

World Society Secret Rule Saxon States Possible Dream Object Anglo-Saxon Recovery Empire Making Probable Form Race Should Whole United Why United States Bringing British British Empire

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. Chinua Achebe

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever. Bobby Sands

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. Franklin P. Jones

Calm Crisis Remarkable Talent Even Keeping British

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. Wilfrid Laurier

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea. Benjamin Netanyahu

You Jews London Come Like Know Because Israel Hear America Accuse Accusing Often Them Washington Why Jerusalem British

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. Daniel Radcliffe

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. Doris Lessing

You Girl Other Could Absolutely Disappeared Idea Empire Empires Like Know End Just Ever Inconceivable British British Empire

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north. Martin McGuinness

Abortion Down Consistent Favour Attempt Had Fein Years Sinn Sinn Fein Very North Any Act Bring Resisted British Position

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. Patrick Henry

Success Freedom Me You People Remember Tyranny Final Virtue Ruins Possessing Destroyed Recollect Spirit Fearful More Small Instance Share Arms Without Makes None Than Reform Any Established Where Public Among British

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Barack Obama

Believe Brits I Believe I Believe In Greek Greeks American Suspect Just British

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. Aidan Turner

Somewhere Would New Like Sound Were Australian Irish Jackson Hobbit New Zealand Peter Peter Jackson Zealand Actor Adamant Britain British

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek. Andre Aciman

Family People Speak Seven Everything Bit Members Arabic Citizenship Born Uncommon Had French Became Italian German Greek Subsequently Brazilian Turkish Acquired Languages English Many Even British

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. Asghar Farhadi

Hope Day You Creative Fight Sunshine Walk Censorship Weather Bit One Day Out Sunny Restrictions Like Passive Iran Iranian Lot Just Whenever Them Next Means Creative Expression Expression Raining British Filmmakers

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated. Bobby Sands

Government Trials Political Long Country Prison Changed Our Everything Out Would About Almost Policy Arrest Prisoners Motivated Conditions Domestic Domestic Policy Political Prisoners Persistent Politically Experienced Then Show Certainly England Asserted Resistance British British Government

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. Helmut Schmidt

Democracy Independence Out About Only Directions Point Main Developments Ideas French Got Coming Years Existed End American Dutch May Different Different Directions Declaration Centuries Mankind Many Europeans Started British

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? Jesmyn Ward

Me Thought Men Free Others Ancestry Tell Immigrants Gulf Gulf Coast About Colonists Free Men Color Proportion Like French Always Understood Tangle American African Native Native Americans Spanish Might Coast Who Many Slaves British

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other. John Quincy Adams

Government People Political Independence King Nation Separation Other States Part Between Declaration Decree United United States British

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