British Controlled Territory

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

    “If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
    —British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    “You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”
    —Ian McEwan (b. 1938)

    “Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)