Famous quotes containing the words british, empire and/or decline:
“Its like the Beatles coming together againlets hope they dont go on a world tour.”
—Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)
“To Americans I hardly need to say,
Westward the star of empire takes its way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (18941961)