East India Company Quotes

#1. The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Robert Trout

#2. This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

Richard Cobden

#3. The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Robert Trout

#4. At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.

Matthew Stewart

#5. Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say 'What else can you expect?' and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.

M.M. Kaye

#6. If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.
(Voltaire)

Elizabeth Kales

#7. Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

Julie Burchill

#8. He must have been an incredibly good shot.

Noel Coward

#9. An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West

Laina Charleston

#10. Children should be seen and not herded

Bill Liao

#11. Lo pitched Superheroes & Scones to his father as a marketing strategy for Halway Comics. But I know the idea has nothing to do with his company. What he did was buy me something of my own, something I could look forward to after college. He found me happiness ...

Krista Ritchie

#12. When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin