British Controlled Territory

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

    “You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let’s not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.”
    —Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    “The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
    and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
    He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
    in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

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