160 quotes found
“I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.”
“Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!”
“We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”
“For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.”
“What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?”
“Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.”
“The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of...”
“fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.”
“When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main This was the charter of the land And Guardian angels sung this strain "Rule Britannia! rule the waves Britons never will be...”
“England is a nation of voyeurs.”
“Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.”
“George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.”
“God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.”
“Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.”
“His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.”
“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”
“If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”
