British
- Bob Simpson (journalist) (1944–2006), foreign correspondent for the BBC
- Robert Simpson (composer) (1921–1997), English composer
- Robert Simpson (UK politician) (1923–1997), Northern Irish politician
- Robert Winthrop Simpson (1799–1877), rear-admiral of the Chilean Navy
- Robert Simpson (cricketer) (born 1962), English cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word british:
“It’s like the Beatles coming together again—let’s hope they don’t go on a world tour.”
—Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)