31 Quotes About Great-britain

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

He was made a prisoner in the Tower of London and stripped of his property. He remained imprisoned in the tower until 1646.

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

Until modern times it was as easy to travel across water as it was across land, where roads were frequently unusable.

The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders … I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one’s right to privacy.

I see you up theresat on that thronewith your one-million-poundhatand imported Indian clothdraped in animalskinsand goldgetting slap-up breakfasts- paid for you by the taxpayer -served on silver plattersby minimum-wagebutlersthen preachingto USabout spending.

Since the industrial revolution, Great Britain had been developing an ever-increasing market for groundfish - especially cod, haddock, and plaice - because fried fish, later fish-and-chips, became the favorite dish of the urban working class.

I propose that an area of no more than 300 square miles, centered roughly upon Henley-on-Thames, has made this quintessentially British town Britain's 'small town and village murder capital'.

Under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 emancipating the enslaved in most of Britain’s colonies, the British state agreed to pay £20 million compensation to slave owners and other beneficiaries of slavery such as mortgagees and annuitants who had financial claims secured on the enslaved.