British Quotes

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.

The Regulars are coming out!

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.