31 Quotes About Great-britain
- Author Bill Bryson
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Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.
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- Author Winston Churchill
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Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
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- Author Romain Gary
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In England,' I told her, ‘the whole thing would probably have been settled by a letter to the Times, after which, under pressure from public opinion, Parliament would simply vote the necessary laws for the protection of the African fauna.
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- Author John Morris Roberts
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For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of employment. The second depended ultimately on the first, but when difficulty arose, the first had always been sacrificed to the other two. The United Kingdom was, after all, a democracy whose votes, greedy and gullible, had to be placated.
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- Author Peter Hitchens
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The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can't build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we're doing, we're cutting down a forest that we can't rebuild.
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- Author Romain Gary
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In England,' I told her, ‘the whole thing would probably have been settled by aletter to the Times, after which, under pressure from public opinion, Parliament would simply vote the necessary laws for the protection of the African fauna.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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The empire on which the sun never set was also the empire on which the gore never dried.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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You vilify Hitler yet glorify Buckingham Palace, when the atrocities of the palace far outweigh the atrocities of Hitler. If Adolf Hitler was a manifestation of the worst of human nature, so was, and still greatly is, Britain, that is, the monarchy and its loyal, spineless subjects.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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If Britain ever had an actual government of merit and character, it would have severed all ties with the stone-age system of monarchy long time ago.
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