British Controlled Territory

Famous quotes containing the words british, controlled and/or territory:

“The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
—Tony Benn (b. 1925)

“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)