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British Quotes
Most Famous British Quotes of All Time!
Genuine affection for London and its people comes through in some reflections, alongside sharper critiques of how colonial trade shaped entire regions abroad. The pursuit of ivory once drove major decisions that permanently altered ecosystems overseas, a history explored in our Britain quotes.
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I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
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It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
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Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'
Media coverage doesn't always escape criticism, with some describing certain press coverage as carrying an uncomfortable edge. Others express a clear wish for deeper regional involvement in Europe rather than stepping back. Read more in our British Empire, British Government, and Britons quotes.