British Empire/britains Imperial Century 1815%e2%80%931914

Famous quotes containing the words british, empire and/or imperial:

    “We may be scum, but at least we’re la crème de la scum.”
    —Report on the British royal family. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Nov. 13, 1988)

    “That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “The imperial multiplicatornothing can nonplus:
    My mother Nature is the origin of it all.”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)