I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
Ramsey: Up the rebels. Goff: Down the British.
I am Scottish. I am also British.
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before the First World War) and the King Edward variety of potato which has fed the British working class for almost as long). ...
India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of their knowledge of parliamentary...
It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes
All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
Invasion was never a holy war in Islam, but it was holy in political Islam and the Islamic states and empires; after all, what is better than religion to drive people to war?!
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
