Empire Exhibition

Empire Exhibition may be:

  • British Empire Exhibition, held in London in 1924 and 1925
  • Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938, held in Glasgow


Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or exhibition:

    “On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. “A boy,” says Plato, “is the most vicious of all beasts;” and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, “A boy is better unborn than untaught.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)