British Controlled Territory

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

    “Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else’s house to earn money? You’re working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? You’re middle class.”
    —Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)

    “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)