Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or british:
“The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“His work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a representative British artist.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)