British Imperial Sayings

#1. It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

John Amery

#2. If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

Alan Moore

#3. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which. November

George Orwell

#4. In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

F. Sionil Jose

#5. It's as if you'd gambled away almost all your money and decided, What the hell, I'll bet what's left

Haruki Murakami

#6. Gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius

Eoin Colfer

#7. Stand still, thou hurrying orb in the high heavens, and make this hour immortal!

Oscar Wilde

#8. For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

#9. For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet - which, happily, is what we do best.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#10. The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

C. West Churchman

#11. Be sure to keep your tummy war, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. For the British after 1857, the Indian Muslim became an almost subhuman creature, to be classified in unembarrassedly racist imperial literature alongside such other despised and subject specimens, such as Irish Catholics or 'the Wandering Jew'.

William Dalrymple

#13. Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

Charles R. Morris

#14. Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. I always win in the end

Lisa Scottoline

#17. That sounds good. But I don't like to be tied down in one place. I want to be free-to go to where I want, when I want, and be able to think about whatever I want.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

Heinrich Zimmer

#19. he merged his group with the small Imperial Fascist League to form the Union, which changed its name in 1936 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists. When the war began, its leaders were arrested and locked away.

Joshua Muravchik