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Britain
«Not since the Battle of Britain has control over air space generated so much conflict.»
Author: Albert Scardino
| Keywords:
air space, battle of, Battle of Britain, Britain, generated, The Battle, the Battle of
«In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it»
«If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden»
«Just for a word - 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper - Great Britain is going to make war.»
Author: Theobald Theodor Von Bethmann-Hollweg
(Chancellor, Politician)
| Keywords:
Britain, disregarded, Great Britain, scrap, scraps, wartime
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
Britain, Good Times, lead-in, reliable, world affairs
«I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.»
Author: Sean Connery
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
Britain, diabolical, earn, earned, get over, meal
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
Africa, Britain, elections, observers, The Observer, The United States of America, United States of America
«There be many CaesarsEre such another Julius. Britain isA world by itself, and we will nothing payFor wearing our own noses.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Britain, Julius, noses, pay for, wearing
