154 Quotes About Empires

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

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.