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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Always Become British British Empire Cliched Culture Empire Felt Frustration Greek Heroes Iliad Our Part Poem Public Public School Read Real School Think Turned War Which Wrong

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I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

~Anne-Marie Duff

Topics: Been Bloody British British Empire Dame Empire Getting Going Happy Just Keep Keep Going Kept Kind Last Like Next Work Would Years

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Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Better British British Empire Country Does Empire Forming History Identity Links Made National National Identity Others Our Own Respect Teaching The History Of Understand Unlikely Us World Worse

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You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

~Antony Sher

Topics: Appoint British British Empire Commander Day Empire Exciting Expect Get Her Just Knight Letter Like Majesty Overwhelming Saying Would You

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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: America Armies Between British British Empire Building Competitive Condition Empire Firm First France Italy League Nations States Success Them Therefore Understanding United United States United States Of America Up Will

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I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

~Arthur L. Herman

Topics: British British Empire Discovery Empire Even Gandhi Guess How Ideal India Long Loyal Most Remained Surprising

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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

~Cecil Rhodes

Topics: Bringing British British Empire Dream Empire Form Making Object Possible Probable Race Recovery Rule Secret Should Society States United United States Whole Why World

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I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.

~Christopher Koch

Topics: About Asia British British Empire Creature Empire Extent How Live Novelists Period Reflect Relate Should Some Transition Views World You

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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Absolutely British British Empire Could Disappeared Empire Empires End Ever Girl Idea Inconceivable Just Know Like Other You

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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Best Bit British British Empire Did Empire Found Myself Old Southern Undo Young

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