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I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

—Arthur Wellesley

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It’s nice to watch television but it’s even nicer when you’ve got a drink in your hand,’ Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. ‘Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that...

—David Kynaston

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In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is...

—William Golding

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The prince’s official job description as king will be ‘defender of the faith,’ which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to...

—Christopher Hitchens

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But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.

—Marc Morris

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When sin ceases to pay, we have a happy knack of finding out that it is wrong; so after a bit, when Virginia, and Georgia and the Carolinas had ceased to belong to us, we...

—W. F.

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I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway.

—Craig Ferguson

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I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

—Johnny Vegas

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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

—Alison Jackson

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One if by land, two if by sea.

—Henry Wadsworth

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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

—William Hague

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I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for...

—Christopher Hitchens

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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn’t. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one’s aims...

—John le Carre

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A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

—Zadie Smith

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One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

—Charlie Brooker

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There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

—John Amery

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Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

—Ben Mitchell

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Well that explains a lot.

—Iris Blaire

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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

—William Hague

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I certainly didn’t concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other...

—Christopher Hitchens

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England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling...

—Mary Wollstonecraft

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What’s similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

—Zaha Hadid

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

—George Bernard

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Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political community. Throughout British India, separate...

—Prem Kishore

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Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Uhh… people?

—Iris Blaire

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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don’t come here.

—Tony Blair

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Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

—Johann Hari

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An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain’s unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.

—Tom Standage

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But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence...

—Eric J.

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When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

—Prem Kishore

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We have no quarrel with the German nation,One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.But, generation after generation,They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

—Alan Herbert

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I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

—Gordon Ramsay

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As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown.

—Steve Merrick

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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

—Christopher Hitchens

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In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows the depth of feeling evident amongst many sceptics. However, this raises an important...

—Michael Salter

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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

—Bashar al-Assad

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The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the ‘capabilities’ of all through collective action....

—Eric J.

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Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you’re this, I dunno, scarlet woman they’re all gossiping about.

—Sam Taylor-Wood

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Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

—Andy Zaltzman

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This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

—Mark Gevisser

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I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was...

—Spiros Doikas

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This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the ‘savages’ of colonial days, who could...

—Mark Curtis

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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

—Boris Johnson

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Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday’s stories into our lives today

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Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

—Winston Churchill

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To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

—Andy Zaltzman

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2011Arab-SpringBritain
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Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone.

—Jonah Goldberg

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